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Alabama

Rhiannon12866

(236,955 posts)

4. I guess I wouldn't fit in very well in Alabama

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 5, 2017, 06:11 AM

Jul 2017

Though you'd be surprised that I'm not bad with a gun - though it's been years. In my teens I belonged to a couple of rifle teams, I learned to shoot at summer camp, was on the team there - all girls - and then I was on the team at school, the first and only girl. I was "second man" on the team!

But we only shot at paper targets and the guns were locked up at camp or at school. Like most here, I'm a big proponent of strict gun control, think repeal of the AWB was tragic. I don't need a gun, but at least I know how to use one. Giving just anyone a gun, let alone an AR-15, is horrific.