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No one has illuminated for me how guns being easy to obtain and freely carried has any bearing on the need to perhaps, maybe, sometime, one day, fire them upon our own government.
Nor are any of those who support these ideas willing to elucidate on the idea that in overthrowing a tyrannical government, they run the risk of becoming tyrants themselves. You can find this in history books, as well.
But that's beside my point...I do digress.
You own guns because you want them. Because it's gratifying to know you have them, to hold them, to use them. Same as millions of other objects out there. For me, it's books and paper.
I've no interest in prohibiting people from buying and using guns (in a legal manner). I've even no particular problem with some people owning semi-automatic weapons. What I have a problem with is reactionary gun owners who don't believe that their hobby should be regulated in any manner being that guns are so often used in the commission of criminal acts. Reactionaries who insist that their hobby should be a (somehow) untouchable right. As if their guns were an extension of their own body.
I am an American I have rights, too. Reasonable gun control is the only reasonable solution in my estimation.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
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