One of our deacons (who is seriously awesome and whose wife is one of the people I’m close to at Metanoia) was over fixing curtain rods yesterday and the following exchange happened.

D: Deacon
J: Jen!

D: Hopefully, you don’t mind that I’m collecting dust in a shell box (used for shotgun shells). Then again, you’ve lived in Montana so this is probably normal.
J: Yeah… I’m pretty aware that people own and shoot guns.
D: You’re from northern California though, right?
J: Yeah… total granola hippie but I’m not against guns and all that within reason. You don’t need a semi-automatic weapon to shoot Bambi.
D: *proceeds to explain to me the difference between semi-automatic and fully-automatic*

I amended my opinion to now opposing military grade weaponry for hunting purposes. You can take out Bambi (who is an 8-point buck) with one shot. You don’t need to zipper him.