I’mma be honest, while I understand your distinction, those using the phrase “gun nut” without a shred of irony do not. To them, you’re one and the same.
Collector? Don’t you mean “why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?”
Fuck it, I for one embrace the label. Honestly if anything, all conflating the two actually serves to accomplish is to normalize the actual “nuts” as “nerds,” rather than making the nerds out to be nuts.
Don’t you mean “why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?”
I’ve seen this argument used in the context that the average gun owner in the US owns 2-3 guns. For context, that’s not the number of guns in the US per citizen, it’s the number per gun owner.
The person complaining was saying that nobody needs more than 1 gun. This is a good example of non-gun owners getting reactionary because they don’t know what they’re talking about. What if someone owns a rifle, shotgun, and a pistol? That’s 3 guns, all of which serve very different purposes.
Plus a lot of people don’t seem to factor in that sport shooting is a thing. Personally, I regularly take a dynamics class, where you go through a variety of scenarios where you’re moving between positions while shooting. There’s also competition formats that do this too.
Not only that, people don’t seem to understand that competition guns and everday carry guns are usually fairly different too. Much like how I wouldn’t want to drive a Lamborghini to pick up groceries or haul a trailer, I generally wouldn’t want to use a Sig P365 (a concealed carry gun) for a competition.
Oh for sure lmao, don’t even get me started on us cloners! “Yes I have 8 different configurations of the same gun, I have the a1, a2, 727, 733, then my moderns with the a3 flattops in 3 different lengths/calibers!”
Lol I just mean that while to us nerds there may be a distinction between nut and nerd, to anyone outside of the nerddom that distinction is moot. They’re just waiting to ask how many people have to die so we can “enjoy our nerd hobby.” Telling them the distinction isn’t going to help, they aren’t “insulting” you with “nut” out of confusion but out of contempt. And so, I do not take insult in it, I accept it and “actually it’s a good thing.”
Honestly maybe that’s the answer. You can like guns without being all “don’t tread on me armed militia 2nd amendment” someone calls you a “gun nut”, just say you’re a “gun nerd”.
I’mma be honest, while I understand your distinction, those using the phrase “gun nut” without a shred of irony do not. To them, you’re one and the same.
Collector? Don’t you mean “why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?”
Fuck it, I for one embrace the label. Honestly if anything, all conflating the two actually serves to accomplish is to normalize the actual “nuts” as “nerds,” rather than making the nerds out to be nuts.
I’ve seen this argument used in the context that the average gun owner in the US owns 2-3 guns. For context, that’s not the number of guns in the US per citizen, it’s the number per gun owner.
The person complaining was saying that nobody needs more than 1 gun. This is a good example of non-gun owners getting reactionary because they don’t know what they’re talking about. What if someone owns a rifle, shotgun, and a pistol? That’s 3 guns, all of which serve very different purposes.
Plus a lot of people don’t seem to factor in that sport shooting is a thing. Personally, I regularly take a dynamics class, where you go through a variety of scenarios where you’re moving between positions while shooting. There’s also competition formats that do this too.
Not only that, people don’t seem to understand that competition guns and everday carry guns are usually fairly different too. Much like how I wouldn’t want to drive a Lamborghini to pick up groceries or haul a trailer, I generally wouldn’t want to use a Sig P365 (a concealed carry gun) for a competition.
Oh for sure lmao, don’t even get me started on us cloners! “Yes I have 8 different configurations of the same gun, I have the a1, a2, 727, 733, then my moderns with the a3 flattops in 3 different lengths/calibers!”
Lol I just mean that while to us nerds there may be a distinction between nut and nerd, to anyone outside of the nerddom that distinction is moot. They’re just waiting to ask how many people have to die so we can “enjoy our nerd hobby.” Telling them the distinction isn’t going to help, they aren’t “insulting” you with “nut” out of confusion but out of contempt. And so, I do not take insult in it, I accept it and “actually it’s a good thing.”
Honestly maybe that’s the answer. You can like guns without being all “don’t tread on me armed militia 2nd amendment” someone calls you a “gun nut”, just say you’re a “gun nerd”.