A different open letter to gun control supporters

Posted by Smokey_tha_bear9000@reddit | Firearms | View on Reddit | 142 comments

I wanted to jump in here and provide some of my own perspective in light of recent events and posts. For context, I am male Mid 30s. I have been shooting guns since around 9 years old, and a gun owner all of my adult life. I shot for my university shooting team, I was a campus leader for the Empty Holster Project, and a Project Appleseed Instructor. I still compete to this day. I have long been a defender of the 2nd Amendment, as far as even alienating friends and family in the past, much to my regret. I have held many political beliefs over the years. Some will call me a flip flopper or spineless or whatever, but I call it growing. We should be able to learn and grow from things like our upbringing, our education, our life experiences.

To anyone that is looking to see if all gun owners are what many gun owners think that you think we are.

To the people in this sub all the time, this isnt me preaching to the choir, this is me trying to remind many of you here that you arent in a homogenous bloc, you need to look outside the echo chamber sometimes. Gun owners arent all republicans or democrats or nazis or commies. Gun ownership and self defense is a human right and many of us will not agree with you on nearly everything else in life, but that's part of being an American.

Please, lets have the conversations.