How I changed my mind about guns

I went from supporting gun control to being a staunch supporter of the second amendment. Here's how it happened.

“I don’t like guns”

This was something I heard in my house often, along with “I don’t like tattoos” and other hallmarks of the so-called Silent Generation.

I didn’t question it much. Growing up in suburban Los Angeles, guns weren’t a big part of my life and culture. I assumed they were something that only criminals have and considered them dangerous.

Th…