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The thing is, I don't think you can decouple the two in this instance. If this was a small child who didn't have the vocabulary or experience to explain what they were feeling or to mentally prepare themselves, that would be one thing. Here however, we have a fully grown adult comparing a single cartridge of .223 to the planetary impact of an asteroid. This person is supposed to be a journalist, someone who is supposed to have a breadth of experience and perspective, along with the ability to communicate that in a dispassionate and unbiased manner. Here they are clearly editorializing and using subjective emotions outside fact to push an agenda and its apparent in every word they chose. He could have said the business "will attract patrons from the northeastern region," but instead he said "gun enthusiasts from around the region will soon be descending on Waterbury." He could have said that visitors and customers of the range ebb and flow, but instead he wrote "The visitors — and the volleys of gunfire — seemed to come in waves." He described a Ruger Precision Rifle as a "long-range military sniper rifle." Hell, he even titled the article "Shots Fired." He dragged out all the anti-gun boogey-men too: guns make the house less safe, that oooooh scary he could have had a gun TODAY, that guns are so easy to use and amazingly lethal while simultaneously not being able to hit anything, focusing on the ages of the young recipients to implicitly characterize young shooters as abnormal, etc.
I don't think anyone here is making fun of the author for being a new shooter, they're making fun of him for being a patently biased sellout, and for emasculating himself in order to kowtow to his political agenda.
Journalists they are supposed to offer objective informative perspectives on subjects, and this ain't that. It's a hit piece, pure and simple. There are loads of unbiased articles about first time shooting experiences but those don't sell outrage clicks to get to your ad-revenue quotas. And on that note I recommend anyone wanting to read that article to do it via archive.org, don't feed the trolls with your clicks.
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