At the risk of resurrecting our hatred of most of TV, I offer the following. My wife and I watched the whole "Lock 'n Load" series yesterday (my in-laws have that AT&T U-Verse thing, and the series was available with Showtime On Demand - all 5 half hour episodes) and I came away with a bit of a different impression.hheremtp wrote:From what I saw of this show I can safely say you can keep your wallet in your pants, you wont be buying any time in the near future. In fact it looks like it is slanted to portray the people in there as gun toting lunatics. Not my kind of show
On the whole I think it portrays gun owners positively. Sure, there was the creepy guy that said the "quickest way to a woman's heart is with a scalpel" and the squirrely guy who said "I want to draw my gun", but the balance of the people were "normal" Americans who like firearms. Old people, young people, fat people, skinny people...
The interviews done outside the gun shop were very well done and positively reflected gun owners, I think. The pastor, the guy with the bad haircut and the pink towel for his gun cleaning, the vegetarian veterinarian - they were all 'pluses' for normality.
There was also the gal who failed her background check - she (and her 'crew') didn't really seem to be on the level. I wondered about that.
Some of the most cringe-worthy stuff was the shooting range hidden camera stuff, where ladies were either given guns much too powerful for them,** or seemed like they were forced to go shoot by their husbands/boyfriends. Oh, and the bicyclist girl who pointed the Desert Eagle at her boyfriend at the counter. As for the host - he did have his "I'm trying too hard" moments, but that improved with time.
If you can get a look at it for free, take a look at the whole thing and I think you might be pleasantly surprised. My wife liked it, but she's a shooter, too. The angrylibgunhaterprogressivecommies that may have only seen episodes 1 and 2 and drawn their own conclusions without watching any more of it will likely have their stereotypes reinforced, unfortunately.
For what it's worth...
** Edit: What I mean by "too powerful" is that it was obvious they had never fired a gun before, and their man hands 'em a 9mm or .45 with only the basic idea of how to hold it and pull the trigger, without working them up to the bigger bore stuff.