Twangbanger
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- Oct 9, 2010
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You're getting very close I think, Pink. It's interesting to me to read between the lines on people. Especially ones who list their occupation as "Community Organizer:"
"...If I hate the NRA so much, why did I buy a gun at 37? As a meat eater with no particular desire to become a vegetarian, I wanted to confront the fact of killing animals for food. Once I took up hunting, I discovered that I relished the time I spent off the grid..."
Ok. He purchased his (presumably first) gun at age 37. For some reason, I have a hunch that his urban-yuppie midlife infatuation with hunting will be short-lived, and he will soon be back to bird-watching. Why do I think so?
Well, call me a "profiler," but there's this:
"...In the mid-1990s, I went to New Orleans for the wedding celebration of a charismatic young couple committed to filmmaking and music, community health care, veganism and spreading joy everywhere they went...."
Gun ownership is a "fad" this guy is going through. Some people ride their bikes to work. He will spend a couple contemplative years wandering the woods with his Remington. He may even look for mushrooms behind the range at Eagle Creek. And then, the day will come when some "unspeakable tragedy" of firearms violence will convince him to turn his hunting gun into the local Buy-Back Program (after all, he's a Community Organizer, right?). And he'll get an article out of _that_, too. Wait for it.
These people occasionally wander in and out of our section of the world. Every day someone takes up the sport of Golf. Every day, there are clubs for sale on Craigslist. This, is that. He's not really one of us. He's a tourist. His travels here will earn him the lifetime credential of being able to call himself a "Hunter." ( A fact which will add 10 "Cred" points to every freelance article he will ever write on the subject of gun control).
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