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Originally Posted by 2001ragtop
What you said is like me saying you have zero comprehension of what 99% of NON-gun owners.
We all define what is "normal" differently, and this includes guns, marriage, religious things, etc, etc.
You can pretend that you are in charge of deciding what percentage that I need to understand of your definition of what is "normal" about gun owners, or standard information about gun owners.
But this is also like a true alcoholic trying to explain to everyone why he drinks so much alcohol every day, and then getting upset when he meets someone who does not drink alcohol at all.
Both people have different definitions of what they think is "ok". And luckily we live in a society where we all get to define what is going to be "ok" in their own personal life.
If every single person has a different definition of "normal", then this is going to apply with how they feel about their gun (or car, or family, etc.)
I already made my points and they weren't censored or modified as if I was running for public office. What you do with your gun is your business.
I already said I do not care. I am not required to care, unless your gun goes off in a church and kills someone by accident. If you do accidentally kill someone with your gun at church, I can decide for myself who I am going to feel sorry for.
Oh wait, you should not read what I just said, because one single person said it is called "trolling" to speak your honest opinion online about something. "Motorhead" is not a troll for saying what he thinks though. He is somehow exempt because his opinion carries a higher value than mine. I forgot to first screen my thoughts with him to make sure he approves of what I want to say.....Yet someone else who has decided to change the definition of the word "Troll", to make it work to his advantage.....what else is he going to "change" to make it sound like what I say has no relevance, even though I can easily back up why I think something.
I repeat: I respect your right to have a gun.
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The point is that it's a completely silly statement that gets people with no rational thinking ability to classify gun owners as such. The fact that you made that statement at all suggests that you either don't own a gun, or know very many (if any) people that do. And I didn't say you were trolling.
"Some" is a ridiculous statement. 3 out of 100 million is "some". If the statement was "some
criminals are looking for an excuse...", then I might tend to agree.
You also have to understand that every single gun owner here is on the defensive because we're being cast by the media and the politicians as irrational cold-hearted unfeeling psychopaths who don't care about anything other than our guns. Our guns are given evil labels. Things that are standard become "high capacity". A modern rifle is an "assault weapon" or "weapon of war". All of us are a bunch of tinfoil hat wearing, government mistrusting (I'll take that one tbh), conspiring radicals eager for the time to overthrow our government. And forget trying to point out actual statistics, or reasonable comparisons to something that belongs to everyone as a civil right (not a privilege). Any true comparable argument sounds absolutely silly when taken in the same context.
For example: Maybe we should ban mean language because it would help prevent bullying. Sure, it infringes on your 1st Amendment, but if it saves even one life... isn't that a sacrifice we should make? So from now on, if you wish to use your bad language, you will have to get a permit to use it. There will only be certain places you can use it. Some words are outlawed entirely, and if you choose to use them anyway, you could be subject to prosecution and become a felon.
See how ridiculous that sounds? But is it not reality? Isn't bullying one of the top social problems in this society, and doesn't a lot of it have to do with mean words/teasing? Do some of those kids kill themselves? Some of them grow up to be psychopaths?
Anyway... sorry about the rant. It's not that I don't respect your right to have an opinion, but again, we're very sensitive right now. I believe you opinion is misguided. I believe, even with the disclaimer of "some", that it is an over-generalization when reality is that "very few" is proper.