I wasn’t bragging. I was, pretty obviously, pointing out the absolutely tone-deaf, reactionary absurdity of your response to a comment about the silliness of a politician’s christmas card (And so bold…!) to a guy who ate, slept, breathed and dreamt weaponry for half a decade, during war, often times in forward combat areas. I mean, of all the people to condescend to about guns… an infantry Marine? Really?

Liking guns is fine. I like guns. Owning guns is fine. I own guns. Hunting and competing is fine. Never had any interest myself, but if other people do, hey, cool. You do you.  Guns-as-hobby is fine… a little expensive for me, but if I were rich, I could see myself maybe buying a few classics. 

But there’s a fine line between liking something and fetishizing it, and with guns more than most hobbies, I notice a weird level of fetization. Look no further than this politician’s pandering Christmas card, a lame attempt to feed some obvious red meat to his base. Look no further than your multi-paragraph, flailingly defensive screed. 

As far as a gun’s main use not being the shooting of another living thing, I’m sorry, but I disagree. There might be other uses, sure, but I’ll bet ya the first guy who invented a gun wasn’t’ doing so to shoot skeet. Guns are primarily meant to shoot animals and people. To believe otherwise is delusory.

A for effort, though, trying to “own a lib.”