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I find it interesting and maybe I am just misreading, but it seems that DK argues for everyone owning a gun.

I am hypothetically believing that is the case. If I am wrong I sincerely appologize, and I am not trying to attack DK personally, but the issue that I see here, which is people not believing they must tell others that they NEED to own a gun for protection and if they do not own one then they are asking for trouble.

Now the issue I have is if that is the case, then why can they not respect the other side of the coin and the people that believe gun ownership in any case is wrong?

Or at the very least, a person's belief (such as my own), that I simply choose not to own a gun because I don't want to. I respect those that do own, because it is their right to do so.

Why can they not respect my freedom NOT to own a gun?

Why must I be warned and asked how I will defend myself and blah blah blah....? It is my choice and freedom just as it is theirs.

I do not need to be warned or treated with disrespect or talked down to or treated as some low life that cannot handle the gun and is so dense and weak that without a gun I could never protect anyone or anything.

I know the risks of owning a gun, I know the risks of not owning one and I choose not to own one. That is my choice. I do not sit and preach them, I may give my reasons why I do not own a gun or want one in parks, bars, amusement parks, schools, privately owned businesses where the owner exorcises his right to ban them in his establishment and so on, but I make my point and move on.

So why do I not seem to get the same respect I show for those that choose to own, from those that choose to own.

As I said before this issue, like abortion, alcohol, gambling, drugs and a few others, are personal choices that are about respecting the other person's choice.

And what these issues have boiled down to in the past few years are the extremists demanding they be heard and that they get what they want.... and so neither side (on any issue) really shows respect or care about rights to the other side. And the people that are neutral and respectful get yelled at from both sides and treated like we don't know anything or we are too weak to take a stand.

I am not weak, I just do not care about this or the above issues enough to push one way or another until my rights are affected..... (i.e. no choice or someone telling me I have no right to tell them I do not want guns on my property)..... I choose to want to focus on, speak out on and work on bigger issues like education, healthcare, the infrastructure, the economy and issues that affect me and my children.

I don't need either side dictating to me how my opinion on gun ownership is wrong or lectured on why I need/do not need to own a gun.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"