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Cook: No change on guns without gun owners

Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 8/19/16. Tanya Mazzolini shoots bb guns with other participants during the Boomer's Adventure and Retreat Camp at YMCA Camp Ocoee on Friday, August 19, 2016.
Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 8/19/16. Tanya Mazzolini shoots bb guns with other participants during the Boomer's Adventure and Retreat Camp at YMCA Camp Ocoee on Friday, August 19, 2016. Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 8/19/16. Tanya Mazzolini shoots bb guns with other participants during the Boomer's Adventure and Retreat Camp at YMCA Camp Ocoee on Friday, August 19, 2016.

By David Cook 4 min read

photo David Cook

As an oftentimes member of the left, I would like to apologize to many gun owners in America for the ways you are demonized and vilified.

Simply because you own guns does not make you a bad American.

Simply because you shoot guns does not make you a violent American.

Simply because you enjoy or cherish guns does not make you a deplorable American.

Too often, that has been the message from the left, liberal or progressive side of American politics.