Very cool post! It sounds like you had such a fun trip, @ashleypeat!

As an American, I appreciate you also taking the time to have some fun and shoot some guns ;) Because they are really fun, and I think the American media does a fantastic job of distorting our gun culture for the rest of the world. It's actually obscene the kind of willful ignorance on display by some of our reporters around this issue. So thank you for writing about your experience, because I think that goes a lot further for an international audience than an American like myself explaining it.

Also, the conversation around gun politics in the U.S. is so toxic that in the wake of the Las Vegas Strip massacre, I've had to shut out a lot of my friends because not only do a lot of them have no idea what they're talking about if they're anti-gun, but also because I was extremely angry that people were quick to jump to partisan talking points rather than recognize the fact that an unprecedented tragedy had just occurred and people closely affected by it needed at least a moment to grieve. And so I wrote about this in a recent post: https://steemit.com/blog/@joshpeterson/why-i-don-t-want-to-talk-gun-politics-after-las-vegas-with-you-right-now

I like that you're actively blogging about completing your bucket list. What a fun project :)