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Being a relatively new supporter of the civil right of self-defense sometimes affords an outsider's perspective. One disheartening realization was that certain gun owners purportedly support our rights, but their actions do not.

Talking to longtime shooters in California, it became clear why that state now leads the country in gun control. The shooting community had, at one time, become the new boy's club in the old oak tree. The exclusion of women and minorities, and its attendant loss of understanding the value of firearms, left them vulnerable to the emotional appeal of gun control.

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