Like the car-drifting culture, precision tuning is more important than wasting fuel and tires. Being in tune is better than being woke. That’s why some folks go to the range. I had hoped for more of that firearms community but apparently there’s more need for protecting demonstrators or in the case of RWNJs, displaying their possessions to “own” libs. In the post-Trump era, there’s a lot more dangerous behavior, even in “self-defense” practical situations.
Was this Johnny Hurley, a hero? Why did he “pick up the dead assailant’s AR-15 rifle”? Doesn’t the NRA tell kids not to pick them up? “STOP! Don't Touch! Run Away! Tell a Grown-up!”
Self-defense is not about heroism, it is about survival, and neither are sports.
I was reconsidering my desire to find an enthusiast community by contacting my local branch of the John Brown Gun Club. There are several branches who do support local demonstrations like those in Portland and Arizona. The sticky problem that comes from such organizing would be if one’s concealed weapon carry permit would be jeopardized by participating in political demonstrations. Darn that “antifa” effect.
The NRA has had a regular magazine column of “good guy” defensive shooting stories that many decades ago featured one of my former bosses.
On a related note, one ex-boss did me the favor of killing my mugger from an unrelated crime by unloading an entire .25 caliber magazine into him while he was fleeing a house break-in. The business just got sold so all NDAs are null and void this coming week. Darn rarity of schadenfreude.
Johnny Hurley was not acting in self-defense. He was a vigilante, running toward the original cop-killing assailant, because “friendly fire” situations are usually a post-mortem assessment.
Likely it’s also what legislators worry about when deciding to put metal detectors at the entrances to their chambers. The residual question remains for those members of the GQP who gave aid and comfort to the insurrectionists sitting next to their colleagues, the targets of those same capitol invaders.