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In gun stores and on public ranges (and all too often online), the advice given to women by strangers is more often bad than good.

Good for you for being there and standing firm on what you know.

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The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. – John Steinbeck