[spittinfire]

For the sake of argument we'll say they were stabbed to death with a rat tail file.....

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Originally Posted by Class273

I just don't get people who are so scared of guns. It's totally irrational. I wonder how that gal would respond to me if I told her that I am very concerned about her take on the issue and that because I feel threatened she needs to give up her right to speak or write about the issue and to insure that I feel safe I will need to confiscate her pen and laptop?

Originally Posted by spittinfire

I wonder if someone broke into her house, killed her entire family and then police show up 5 minutes after the attacker left.....would her mind change? Not that I want that to happen, I'm just saying.
Then again, some of these wack jobs are so far out there the death of their own family wouldn't even begin to change their line of thinking.

Originally Posted by dunerunner

She would rationalize that if ALL THE GUNS were gone, her family would still be alive.

PRECISELY, dune. That is exactly the majority view in this country. No guns = no deaths. Easy!

Of course it's totally unrealistic/simplistic & batsh*t-crazy (Yeah suppose all the crims will hand over their illegal weaponry forthwith lol) but it is a foundation belief deeply very rooted in this society.

And why shooters here (who are, let's face it, using guns solely for *sport* [& hunting]) are looked upon with such suspicion


People are always scared of what they are ignorant of.