One must always keep in mind that those who talk up the constitution the most, or even carry it around, have never read it, even if you ask them to recite the 2nd Amendment they are unable to do it, in fact next time you are around a gun enthusiast ask them to recite it, dollar to a donut the first half of it is missing.
I can relate to Desi Lydic in that I too was brought up by a NRA father, I began hunting when I was 10 and did so most of my life. I also carried a .45 on my hip for a year in the Army, and for another year was a Safety Officer at the range who shot up all the extra ammo at the end of the day rather than turn it in. Also qualified expert .45, M1, M14, M16, M60, and 50 cal.
And now I find myself consumed mostly by three issues, gun control and corporal / capital punishment. Some people age and get more conservative while the opposite has happened to me. It slowly came to me that it is violence that causes more emigration, fear, harm, misery, pain and grief in this world of ours. There is little we can do about the cancer, stroke, heart attacks, disease and accidents but there is something we can all do about violence if we put our minds to it. 100 of us shoot each other A DAY for christsake. We lose in two days what Egypt Air lost and what’s in the news?
Note: In respect to my father, he and his hunting partner Chuck who I spend the duck season with each year in a cabin on lake Puckaway, both ended their relationship with the NRA sometime in the 70’s saying it had left hunting to become political.