The same people who try to divide us, are the same people that sell guns to kill you,...

[OAITW r.2.0]

to save you. Except if your gun enabled assailant has better training and shot control. You and your gun, lose.

[yagotme]

1. Not necessarily.

"You always have to be on the lookout for that six-fingered buster. The one that can't hit a cow in the teat with a tin cup." Or words to that effect. (John Wayne, "The Shootist".) The idea being, that all the training in the world won't stop someone from surprising you. Real life isn't Hollywood, and having your (eta: their) head on a swivel 24/7 isn't possible.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. How Paranoid do you want to be?

If you buy the Republican vision...."do you have enough guns and ammunition? Tell us and we will share with our political underwriters - the NRA....we will try to resolve your gunlessness problem. At little, or no cost, to you."

[yagotme]

3. Well, if they want to provide me with low/no cost guns and ammo,

sign me up.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. What's the NRA goal? Arming all Americans, maximizing market penetration?

Because this makes us = collectively - safer?

[yagotme]

5. Well, since the NRA doesn't actually sell guns,

they're lobbyists, so that's where the reins need to be pulled in.

[H2O Man]

6. The NRA's goal

is to get financial contributions from not only members, but from the industry that makes weapons. And you are correct that they thus encourage people to buy large quantities of guns and ammunition. Especially those that they can frighten by spreading the same feces that the republican party encourages and spreads.

Our friend is correct, too, in that even the majority of well-trained individuals tend to lack the "marksman" skills they have when shooting a target on a range ..... or in the forests where militias play. This is true, for example, when police fire at unarmed suspects. It is far more true when there are people shooting at each other, in almost every situation that applies to.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. The Proud Boys want to go against people who don't think like themselves?

Cool, I know how this game is played. May but a hi-cap .38+ cal. Just to target practice. Got lots of property and cast iron ironwork as targets. Nothing like audible feedback.