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Showing Original Post only (View all)Not Just A Novelty Item: Get to Know the Americans You'd Least Expect to Fancy the Firearm [View all]
http://www.good.is/posts/good-magazine-feature-not-just-a-novelty-item-get-to-know-the-americans-you-d-least-expect-to-fancy-the-firearm Not Just A Novelty Item: Get to Know the Americans You'd Least Expect to Fancy the Firearm
by Sarah Stankorb
Illustrations by David Schwen
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My shooting instructor shows me how to control my breathing.
Like in yoga? I ask.
She responds with a nod, a chuckle, a shrug. Breathe in, breathe out, wait a beat. Fire. I see a yellow flash spark over the blackness of the XDm 9mm semi-automatics slide. I can feel the pistol recoiling in my hands, but not the terror I expected to feel. My shot lands well inside the targets center squarea guileless sheet of paper printed with a vaguely human form now has a bullet in its chest.
Congratulations! You just fired a real gun. The sweet-faced and aptly named Amy Shotwell, my instructor at Ashburn, Virginias Silver Eagle Group, grins....
by Sarah Stankorb
Illustrations by David Schwen
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My shooting instructor shows me how to control my breathing.
Like in yoga? I ask.
She responds with a nod, a chuckle, a shrug. Breathe in, breathe out, wait a beat. Fire. I see a yellow flash spark over the blackness of the XDm 9mm semi-automatics slide. I can feel the pistol recoiling in my hands, but not the terror I expected to feel. My shot lands well inside the targets center squarea guileless sheet of paper printed with a vaguely human form now has a bullet in its chest.
Congratulations! You just fired a real gun. The sweet-faced and aptly named Amy Shotwell, my instructor at Ashburn, Virginias Silver Eagle Group, grins....
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friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
OP
Sorry. They don't exist. That's a fictional group. A figment of someone's imagination.
Common Sense Party
Aug 2013
#3
They're also cackling that those they've purged aren't responding to them.
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#7
People respond People who conform with the articles of faith of the group
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#38
I'm confused. What group are you speaking of, Bansalot? May be a reason for that?
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#24
And yet you have enough faith in capitalism to be willing to let its managerial arm...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#39
Your criticism is appropriate. In a sense, the "Moms Demand" group may be getting short shrift...
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#23
I think I phrased that a bit badly: I have no idea whether the "Moms Demand" group
petronius
Aug 2013
#33