They picked a wife-beater adorned, tattooed, ex-Marine guy who is an insensitive jerk. This guy is way too obsessed with guns. I love guns, I have a vast knowledge of their use and own quite a few myself. If I were him, I wouldn't be so callous when she fired the OU shotgun for the first time. New shooters need to be gently coaxed into the past time, not callously mocked for reliving a horrible experience.She was just a whiny liberal woman who was very typical of the anti-gun crowd. Her family made prejudiced remarks against the gun owner by talking like everyone who enjoys guns are rednecks with a trailer for a home. Shame on them, liberals tend to be just as close-minded and bigoted as conservatives but they are worse because they play the hero/martyr card.That said, it was nice to see guns not totally cast into a negative light. A breath of fresh air for me.

Great episode, nice to see both sides being open-minded, I'm a firearms enthusiast myself, and *NONE* of my firearms have ever been used in anger, they have *NEVER* been raised against another human in anger or in defense, and thank Og I have never had to use my firearms defensively, I hope I never have to If guns are "killing machines" as Pia believes, then all of my guns must be *defective* as not a single one has "killed" anything other than paper or clay targets....I do think the gun enthusiast here made one glaring error, when introducing Pia to firearms, he has her use a 12-gauge Over/Under shotgun as her *FIRST* firearm experience?!?, give a nervous, timid person who is mortally terrified of guns one of the *harder* recoiling weapons with a loud report? big mistakeHad I been introducing her to sport shooting, I would have started her off with a .22 caliber rifle and handgun, first cartridges would be quiet, no-recoil CB Long primer-only cartridges, no gunpowder, the bullet is fired by the primer only, the sound of a CB Long firing is quieter than clapping your hands, once she got comfortable with CB's, I'd step her up to .22 Short (slightly more powerful than CB's) and finally to .22 Long Rifle (the standard .22 round).22's are quiet, and have almost no recoil, and are a great introduction to the shooting sports, once she was comfortable with operating the .22's, she'd be slowly stepped up to more powerful calibers, only *if* she felt she was readya decent progression for training a novice would be;
.22 CB Long > .22 Short > .22 Long Rifle > .38 Special/9mm > .223 > .30-30 > .45ACP > .357 Magnum > 12-gauge > .30-06the last three (.357 Magnum 12-GA , .30-06) would only be *IF* she felt she was ready, no pressure, these are loud, hard-recoiling weapons that are quite intimidating for a novicegiving a novice shooter a 12-gauge for their first firearm experience is quite negligent, especially if she had a valid reason for disliking firearms

why isn't she just anti-criminal vs anti-guns. hating guns is just like hating hammers or cars..they are just tools..it's the person who uses the device that causes the good or harm with it.other than losing her friend and crime(see my first comment) she knows nothing about the lifestyle she is on a crusade against...She should have atleast explored and tried to understand the culture of gun ownership.Anyways the only people truely affected by gun laws are law-abiding gun owners. If a criminal wants a gun, there are too many under the table ways to get one, and laws will never stop that, anymore than Prohibition stopped booze in this country.People who break laws, will aways find a way around them. People like me a legal FFL holding gun-owner will always be hindered by them..50 cal MG..a bolt action single shot MG?? See what I mean when I said she was ignorant of the culture.