The View" host says she owns a new gun and audience laughs... Until they realize she's serious...

[nortatoga]

 

[livingston]

As gun owners we need to do a better job welcoming the disenfranchised into our community. Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific islander what ever.. The media has done a excellent job of demonizing gun ownership in the black community (for one ) ,, It is always a black hood rat shooting up the neighborhood.. That is played over and over.. for years folks.. The liberals have been brain washing this country into thinking allow a black person a gun and the next thing will happen the corner store will be held up ... For many liberals the idea of a respectable black person or hispanic person owning a gun just does not exist.
We as gun owners know that mindset put out by the left is totally wrong. .. One thing I picked up on is she sought out a black owned gun shop. This is totally fine and I support her supporting a black owned business. .. Is the lack of such shops one reason for not having more such gun owners. ?
Just throwing that out there.

 

[BuffNiag]

That enlightening moment when realize guns aren’t just for gang bangers.

 

[byron]

Whoopi Goldberg and Megan McCain are also gun owners and members of the NRA

 

[Phazer]

As gun owners we need to do a better job welcoming the disenfranchised into our community. Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific islander what ever.. The media has done a excellent job of demonizing gun ownership in the black community (for one ) ,, It is always a black hood rat shooting up the neighborhood.. That is played over and over.. for years folks.. The liberals have been brain washing this country into thinking allow a black person a gun and the next thing will happen the corner store will be held up ... For many liberals the idea of a respectable black person or hispanic person owning a gun just does not exist.
We as gun owners know that mindset put out by the left is totally wrong. .. One thing I picked up on is she sought out a black owned gun shop. This is totally fine and I support her supporting a black owned business. .. Is the lack of such shops one reason for not having more such gun owners. ?
Just throwing that out there.

Bingo!

My favorite non-shooters to take to the range for their first time are fence sitters who have been taught to fear firearms, but are still willing to learn. I start them with a 10/22 from a seated position, advance to a 9mm PCC, and then finish by letting them try an MSR in .223. I'll let "the brave" try a few 12g slugs if they really feel comfortable (though, I never insist that a smaller first time shooter do that). Most people end the session with a desire to shoot again.

 

[pshift]

Everytime I take a friend who is a newbie (after telling them that I have a CCP), they change their thought process. The worst that I've ever gotten is "Now I see your point. I'm not comfortable buying one though". You may not get them all but you will change some viewpoints after exposing them to 'fun on the range'.

 

[meketrefe]

The view?
People still watch TV?

 

[Phazer]

The worst that I've ever gotten is "Now I see your point. I'm not comfortable buying one though". You may not get them all but you will change some viewpoints after exposing them to 'fun on the range'.

I have had the exact same experience. Some people end the session saying, "Thanks for the experience. I still don't like them and I'm not going to shoot again. But, at least now I know more." Even those people get to see that the people at the range are all polite, cheerful, and supportive of new shooters. That in itself goes a long way to dispel some of the fake news mythos about "crazy gun culture nuts."

It really opens their eyes when we put the long guns away and start to head out. They say, "Hey...how about letting me try the pistols?" I have to tell them that I can't...because of New York laws. Some of the smarter ones then retort, "Umm....I can shoot a .223 modern sporting rifle or a 12g semiauto shotgun but I can't try your .22 target pistol? Seriously?" That's priceless.

 

[dwa12479]

Bingo!

My favorite non-shooters to take to the range for their first time are fence sitters who have been taught to fear firearms, but are still willing to learn. I start them with a 10/22 from a seated position, advance to a 9mm PCC, and then finish by letting them try an MSR in .223. I'll let "the brave" try a few 12g slugs if they really feel comfortable (though, I never insist that a smaller first time shooter do that). Most people end the session with a desire to shoot again.

Nothing makes me angrier than the dickhead who gives a first time shooter a 12 gauge with a 3" magnum slug and tells them they should hold the stock about an inch from their shoulder and pull the trigger. There are SO many videos out there of assholes letting people shoot a firearm they have no hope of controlling, and that first impression lasts a lifetime.

 

[nortatoga]

@dwa12479 because I agree!!!!

 

[Cleck]

We as gun owners know that mindset put out by the left is totally wrong. .. One thing I picked up on is she sought out a black owned gun shop. This is totally fine and I support her supporting a black owned business. .. Is the lack of such shops one reason for not having more such gun owners. ?
Just throwing that out there.

I'm betting if there were more, or if the current ones were more visible, there would be more black gun owners. Friend who owns a shop says some of his biggest customers are black people that get the cold shoulder or treated like shit by other gun shops because they might look like they're a thug to them or something. They come, they're treated like everyone else, and that makes them bring their friends and family.

Good for this lady for doing it and trying to spread the word

 

[GOPerfect]

So, okay and whatever.

I watched the clip, I do not have a feeling one way or another on what is being discussed in regards to these people buying guns. I think it is great.

I do take issue with a lot that was said.

Black woman this and black woman that. Get over yourself and you skin color. She says that she went to a black owned shop to get training and to purchase; good for her, but why is that important? The other one said, I go shooting with my black friends,...

Holy shit on the color of your skin. Again, get over and get past your skin color; most do not care.

They said more than a few times, "As a black woman"....

Try going through your life as a person, not as a black person.

White people near never describe themselves as White or shopping at a White store.

Yeah, this is what I got from the video. And, stop living in the 60's.

 

[MoMan]

So, okay and whatever.

I watched the clip, I do not have a feeling one way or another on what is being discussed in regards to these people buying guns. I think it is great.

I do take issue with a lot that was said.

Black woman this and black woman that. Get over yourself and you skin color. She says that she went to a black owned shop to get training and to purchase; good for her, but why is that important? The other one said, I go shooting with my black friends,...

Holy shit on the color of your skin. Again, get over and get past your skin color; most do not care.

They said more than a few times, "As a black woman"....

Try going through your life as a person, not as a black person.

White people near never describe themselves as White or shopping at a White store.

Yeah, this is what I got from the video. And, stop living in the 60's.

Yea, this is the same shit that chaps my ass!
How about just being a person, not black, white, asian, latino,... BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!

It's the same way as everyone has to be a 'hyphenated American'!! you know; 'african-Amerrican', asian-American. 'latino-American', BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!!
I've got a REALLY GREAT idea; lose the hyphenations, and just refer to yourself as an 'AMERICAN'!!! That's truly how they can get past the so called 'racism', that they seem to have burned into their brains!!

sorry for the derailment; //rant off

 

[Jmac00]

The view?
People still watch TV?

 

[Blimey]

So, okay and whatever.

I watched the clip, I do not have a feeling one way or another on what is being discussed in regards to these people buying guns. I think it is great.

I do take issue with a lot that was said.

Black woman this and black woman that. Get over yourself and you skin color. She says that she went to a black owned shop to get training and to purchase; good for her, but why is that important? The other one said, I go shooting with my black friends,...

Holy shit on the color of your skin. Again, get over and get past your skin color; most do not care.

They said more than a few times, "As a black woman"....

Try going through your life as a person, not as a black person.

White people near never describe themselves as White or shopping at a White store.

Yeah, this is what I got from the video. And, stop living in the 60's.

It's because society has normalized this weird racism.

If everything she said was kept precisely word by word but just replace black with white it would cause an outrage.

 

[GOPerfect]

It's because society has normalized this weird racism.

If everything she said was kept precisely word by word but just replace black with white it would cause an outrage.

Correct.