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Originally Posted by Dakota.potts
I think knowing these kinds of things will help us better understand the mindset of those who don't shoot and even those who might be against guns.
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Indeed. While ignorance of the activity can accompany hostility to the activity, from inside the hobby/sport/activity of shooting it can be very easy to mistake simple lack of familiarity, and the unease anyone will have with the unfamiliar, for a positive hostility.
I recall a dinner party in which the way I spend my spare time was brought up by another person. Several of the girls present were mystified at yet curious about the activity. I fetched a small and unloaded .22, noted the similarity of the magazine to Pez dispenser, and spent the next half-hour answering questions of the serious and unfamiliar.
It later turned into several trips to the range.