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I was having a little discussion with Mom tonight about firearms/the Sandy Hook thing, and obama's gun violence reduction proposals on the drive home tonight (she had to drop her car off at the dealer for repairs and I gave her a ride home)
She was saying how she didn't see the "need" for hi-cap mags, and that it made the gun "more dangerous" and "scarier", and that single shots were safer and less dangerous...
So, when we got home, I went upstairs to the gun closet (double deadbolt locks, nothing short of a tactical nuke will breach that door), grabbed my CZ 452 Scout, the single shot adapter, and a 10 round CZ mag
Mom has shot the Scout before, and enjoys it, so she's familiar with the gun.
I show her the Scout in single shot config, and she remarks that it's not scary, I then remove the SSA, and slide in the 10 shot mag, asking, okay, what about now, is it scary, or more dangerous now? It's the exact same gun, only the capacity has changed.....
That got her thinking, and she admitted that perhaps she wasn't thinking logically about the situation.....
Now, to be fair, Mom is not an anti, nor is she a fence sitter, to her, guns just *are*, they're tools that need to be treated with respect, I think she finally realized how insidious the "anti" propaganda can be....
Even better, Mom is a teacher, and expressed interest in the schools that have been teaching their educators how to shoot and defense tactics, she has admitted she wouldn't mind having either armed security on campus (college prep high school) or having authorized and trained teachers carrying, she'd be willing to be one herself
That came around from another discussion we had a couple weeks ago, when I asked her what the school policy was for an active shooter threat, when I summed up the school policy as "cower and hide and hope the shooter goes away", it really got her thinking
In fact, she's going to suggest having some form of armed security or teachers at her school as well (not only is she a teacher, she's also an administrator, and has been at the school for 25+ years, her words carry a lot of weight there)
She was saying how she didn't see the "need" for hi-cap mags, and that it made the gun "more dangerous" and "scarier", and that single shots were safer and less dangerous...
So, when we got home, I went upstairs to the gun closet (double deadbolt locks, nothing short of a tactical nuke will breach that door), grabbed my CZ 452 Scout, the single shot adapter, and a 10 round CZ mag
Mom has shot the Scout before, and enjoys it, so she's familiar with the gun.
I show her the Scout in single shot config, and she remarks that it's not scary, I then remove the SSA, and slide in the 10 shot mag, asking, okay, what about now, is it scary, or more dangerous now? It's the exact same gun, only the capacity has changed.....
That got her thinking, and she admitted that perhaps she wasn't thinking logically about the situation.....
Now, to be fair, Mom is not an anti, nor is she a fence sitter, to her, guns just *are*, they're tools that need to be treated with respect, I think she finally realized how insidious the "anti" propaganda can be....
Even better, Mom is a teacher, and expressed interest in the schools that have been teaching their educators how to shoot and defense tactics, she has admitted she wouldn't mind having either armed security on campus (college prep high school) or having authorized and trained teachers carrying, she'd be willing to be one herself
That came around from another discussion we had a couple weeks ago, when I asked her what the school policy was for an active shooter threat, when I summed up the school policy as "cower and hide and hope the shooter goes away", it really got her thinking
In fact, she's going to suggest having some form of armed security or teachers at her school as well (not only is she a teacher, she's also an administrator, and has been at the school for 25+ years, her words carry a lot of weight there)