Mississippi

WW2 generation and gun guy also dropped out of NRA about the same time as you. He was into restoring and collecting old rifles. he had me shoot his mauser at age 5. no hand guns and no hunting. he liked guns for the precision and physics. he was fearsome about gun safety and he trained me sternly to never point the gun at anybody and always point the gun down.

guns never appealed to me but i inherited some of his mechanical ability. i think he was a b-17 crew chief but stayed in the states during ww2. he spent his career as a plant manager all over the midwest and was in mfg mgmt at republic aviation on long island 1959 to 1957, which may have been the longest employment of his career. he was a high functioning alcoholic which made me shy, fe,arful, insecure and un-trusting. I did overcome all that stuff mostly by going away to college 3 years late with the help of a lifelong friend. i miss both parents and it wasn't all bad. humor was big with my parents and i appreciate that gift.

our national fetish with the mis-use of the 2nd amendment is simply perverse and reinforces the generalization that Americans tend to be stupid, cruel, fearful, poorly educated and superstitious with the wide consumption of mis/dis info and preposterous conspiracy theories. voters groomed by republicans, in other words.

-90% jimmy