Gun Guys by Dan Baum

Author:Dan Baum [Baum, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-96221-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

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* I repeat them here because, really, they can’t be repeated enough. The wording changes depending on who is teaching them, but the essence is the same. 1. Treat all guns as though they are loaded. 2. Never let the muzzle cross anything you’re not willing to destroy and pay for. 3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target and you’re ready to fire. 4. Be sure of your target and what is behind it. 5. Maintain control of your firearm.

† Gun guys like to quote Sigmund Freud as saying, “A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity,” although he never wrote that and there’s no evidence he said it. Freud thought weapons seen in dreams represented the penis, but was otherwise silent on their psychological significance.

‡ Cars, too. The number of nineteen-year-olds who’d bothered to get a driver’s license fell by about a third, to below half, between 1998 and 2008, and those who had drove 12 percent fewer miles, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Almost half the drivers between eighteen and twenty-four said they’d choose Internet access over owning a car. “They think of a car as a giant bummer,” a marketer named Ross Martin told The New York Times.

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