{"id":6824,"date":"2008-12-14T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T03:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/the-current-burning-question-in-my-life\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T21:08:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T03:08:35","slug":"the-current-burning-question-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/the-current-burning-question-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The current burning question in my life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Background: My birthday gift to myself this year (yesterday was my 48th b-day), was a handgun safety and familiarization course at a local range.  Class lasted four hours yesterday afternoon\/evening, and I had so much fun that after class, I bought another box of ammo and went back into the range to play some more.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I went back over for another hour of practice, hoping to try a different gun that someone else had been using yesterday (yesterday I used a Ruger SP101 revolver. Today, I used their GP100).  I did alright yesterday, for a first-time shooter, but today, with the GP100, I almost demolished the center ring.  <\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my burning question:<\/p>\n<p>I told a couple friends about today, because I was so happy with my marksmanship, and it was so much fun for me. Each friend, when they heard I&#8217;d spent an hour at the range, and shot 200 rounds of ammo, said something along the lines of &#8220;Wow, taking out your frustrations, eh?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>**confused look**<\/p>\n<p>Why do they automatically assume I was stressed\/frustrated\/angry? (one did mention anger) Can they not comprehend someone simply enjoying shooting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: My birthday gift to myself this year (yesterday was my 48th b-day), was a handgun safety and familiarization course at a local range. Class lasted four hours yesterday afternoon\/evening, and I had so much fun that after class, I bought another box of ammo and went back into the range to play some more. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}