New Yorker Presents A Positive Face Of Guns And Kids

By Tom Knighton

When you hear the words “New Yorker,” you likely think anti-gun. Let’s be fair; there’s a reason for that. The Big Apple is known for being the most anti-gun location in the country.

New Yorker magazine doesn’t exactly have a lot of pro-Second Amendment street cred either. Instead, it’s lumped in with all the other mainstream media outlets that constantly bash our rights as if they’re something dirty that we should be ashamed of.

However, earlier this week, something odd happened. I came across a story that didn’t paint guns as some horrible evil.

Several years ago, while on a road trip, Sharif Hamza, a British-born photographer who lives with his wife and two daughters in Brooklyn, met a grade-school kid with a shotgun in the Arizona desert. Watching the boy’s father patiently instruct him in safety procedures, Hamza was struck by how different the interaction was from the culture he grew up in, where soccer was the game in the park and the rich kids might golf or ski, but shooting was practically unheard-of.

Curious, Hamza reached out to 4-H clubs—which teach riflery along with animal husbandry—and began to attend youth competitions associated with the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms