Why is Shooting a Stigma???

The story set up:

  Last weekend the family and I attend  my best friends sister's 23 birthday party. I have know her family  all of my life. Her brother and I have been shooting together for decades.  His sister has gone with us a few times.  For the most part I knew about 80%  of the party guest.  Out of the 80% of the people, maybe 5% are know shooters to me.

This is where the story starts:

A few of us guys are playing poker, smoking cigars,  enjoying beers and  Marker's Mark, while the kids are swimming, and the wives are talking. As our poker game goes on, and the Marker's Mark flows, then the smack talk starts to flows. During the smack talk , one of my buddies states, "I am a better shot then you!" To my best friend.  I know from experience that my best friend is a really good shot.  Those are fighting words to my best friend (not in the literal sense). Mainly because it was coming from possibly the worst shooter there.

Anyways, a female heard us talking about shooting and everything related to shooting.  She approached the poker table and started saying,

"I don't know why you guys like guns, they are dangerous and kill people. "

I reply, "Cars are dangerous and kill people too!"

Then she says,
 "ONLY crazy people would compare guns to cars"

Then the rest of the poker players chimed in. It got loud. Them the wives and the birthday girl got involved.

It got a little heated, but was entertaining.  The female babbled for about 15 minutes spitting out information with no facts.   She was countered by wives and the birthday girl with firearm knowledge and facts.

It was BEAUTIFUL!!!!

 To watch and listen to our wives defending their GUN GUYS husband's was AWESOME.  During this verbal fencing between women, us husband's were drinking our Maker's Mark and smoking our Gurkha cigars watching the magic.

Conclusion:

 The female now wants us to teach her how to shoot.  It was a good day.