Well, good for you
Anti-gun guy changes mind about guns and decides to get a handgun. But he doesn’t logic so well:
I recognize that my decision doesn’t make the best logical sense. My head knows that. On the other hand, we humans are emotional creatures, and this decision helps me feel better. Perhaps there’s just some comfort in feeling like I’m taking action, even if all the statistics tell me I might actually just be making the problem worse
Everything you just said is wrong, except for maybe the feeling better part.
December 23rd, 2015 at 3:25 pm
I can’t access comments to his article, but I hope the first 100 or so are repetitions of “Get some training,” and “These are the four rules of gun safety that you have to know.”
After that, I’d expect 100 comments on how he will have a big smile on his face after his first shot at the range.
December 23rd, 2015 at 6:51 pm
At least he no longer wants to be a sheep.
December 23rd, 2015 at 7:01 pm
The distinct possibility exists that, since he doesn’t like guns, he might not spend enough time (or any time) training. And then he will indeed be “making the problem worse”. “The problem” being, of course, stupid idiots that own guns…
December 23rd, 2015 at 7:20 pm
To paraphrase Shakespeare:
“To pull or not to pull, that is the question.”
When I jumped out of a perfectly good DC-3, over Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1976, I pulled. That’s what you do when your life is at stake. I pulled the ripcord in parachute rigger school, in a simulated emergency jump, at 3500 feet, with the first parachite that I had ever packed, and obviously, I lived.
When your life is in danger, and you need to send a bullet into your attacker to live, you will pull. That’s what you do. That’s what everybody does. We had only fatality to that point at Lakehurst, and he had left a suicide note behind before he jumped. When your life is at stake, you will pull. That will happen, you will do it. The survival imperative is built into us, and uh, ya know, that is built into us.
December 23rd, 2015 at 9:26 pm
My last shooting instructor directed us to “Press” the trigger, not “Pull” it. Whatever. The action must be somewhat forceful and deliberate. That’s what comes from practice.
December 28th, 2015 at 9:23 pm
“I recognize that my decision doesn’t make the best logical sense”
Actually your decision makes perfect “logical” sense. Your inability to recognize that stems from the fact that this is probably the first “logical” decision you have ever made.
You conflate emotion with logic and it is no wonder that the result is confusion.
Grow up further.