That or it was an inside joke after they came back from a commercial where during the break they had just totally slammed shooting as a sporting activity.
Ted Nuggent invited Connan out for a day of shooting a few years back and O'brien seemed pretty spineless about the whole thing. Connan went but I don't know how many or what type of guns he shot, afterwards he made the usual wise cracks which really didn't give an insight to whether or not he thought it was a worth while experience.
Carson Daly was doing the USO show in Germany or some such place for the support troops in Afganistan and he got to shoot an M16 and SAW, whether or not he came away from the experience with a positive impression is hard to say. For somebody who's never fired a gun in their life, which he admitted in the MTV episode, it's hard to imagine such a person being converted when the weapons they fired were the most powerful and destructive weapons they can imagine. Now whenver Carson sees an AR15 in a gun shop is he going to think that it's the same thing he fired on that shooting range over in Germany?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he enjoyed the experience but it's likely that now he thinks he's in some way experienced and his opinion is now even more valid. I can just hear the "you don't need guns like that" comments in referrence to my AR15s when he's basing his comments off of the M16 he fired which just reinforced his opinions.
Were the two of them talking about shooting in a legitimate positive light or was it like, "oh, I can't wait to go shooting again" and they say it with big huge s*** eating grins on their faces while leaving you with the impression that they thing gun owners are inbred white trash?