Chris Cheng at @Google Talk
Pro-shooter and TFB writer Chris Cheng was invited to Google to be interviewed for one of their famous @Google Talks at Google HQ by tech-and-gun-guy Jon Stokes. It is well worth watching….
I agreed with a lot of what Chris and Jon said in the video, but I do think “gun 2.0” folks have always existed, but that now gun enthusiast culture is going mainstream.
“gun 2.0” people are those of us who are passionate about guns for their own sake. A good analogy would be people who love astronomy verses people who are enthusiastic about telescopes (they probably use their telescopes to look at stars, but they are really enthusiastic about their scopes, upgrading their scopes, maintaining them etc.). While these “2.0” folks have existed for as long as guns have existed, today gun enthusiasm is going mainstream.
Chris has just published a book called Shoot to Win which Nathaniel F reviewed it here. I am going the draw for our Shoot to Win book giveaway on Wednesday, enter here.
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Good stuff, I especially liked the conversation on how we as gun owners can get involved with preventing gun violence (starts around 18:00)
A while back we had a gun buyback day in my city. A crowd of 2A guys picketed from across the street and caused a ruckus. The next day I called the county commissioner who organized the event and said "I totally appreciate that you're trying to keep our community safe, and I want to help, but you're going about it in the wrong way. The key lies in safety education, not removing guns from homes. So whenever/wherever you want I'll set up a booth and teach people the 4 gun laws, techniques for storing guns/ammo, how to safely handle firearms, etc."
He was blown away and said it was the first call he had received that wasn't an irate gun owner. He thanked me for the offer and invited me to come to an upcoming policy meeting and present to the group.
I don't say this to pat myself on the back in any way, only to show that we can make such a bigger impact by constructively looking for solutions and ways to add value, rather than just getting irate (which I do plenty behind closed doors).
I started watching this video just knowing I was not going to make it through 52+ minutes however, bravo Chris. A measured, cogent argument for many of the issues we gun owners face.