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Bravo.
Thinking a guy is an asshole when he parades around the ground outside of a grade school showing his gun is exactly the same thing as denying a race the right to work, live and get an education.
And, yeah, we get it. Its because of your libertee.
experiencing an aversion to gunners on a chatboard is experiencing the same degree of oppression as being physically, legally denied his or her rights to vote, to ride the bus where he wants to, to piss and shit in the same place as the majority, to go to quality schools, to live outside a ghetto, etc. etc. And we all know that supporting gun rights in a chatroom on the internet today requires the same degree of physical courage as opposing Jim Crow laws in the south in the 1950s.
Talk about an absurd position. What's next, gunners on DU as victims of genocide?
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I don't really think much of you at all...why would I???
And why would I feel vulnerable?? What stretch of imagination are you making to come up with the notion that I am (or feel) any more vulnerable then you, or just about anyone else??? I am quite sure I am alot less vulnerable then most. I actually feel pretty good about my capabilities, my problems (or lack there of), and of course usually feel ok about the way I spend my time.
Except for responding to this nonsense, I guess.
Talk about a disconnect of ideas....
Here's a remark for you...
Bye.
and you're clinging to it to show just how horribly put upon you are by all those mean people in the world.
Why, it's clearly as bad as Selma!! 
So it's not particularly surprising you're interested in owning a gun to protect yourself, if you are so threatened by a mean Internet comment.
I'll do what is necessary to keep her safe if it's within my means. I'm sure you won't mind...
She's my #1 interest from now until one of us dies....I will do my best to make sure she doesn't die prematurely at the hands of anyone, anywhere. That includes protecting her when we're together it's my job, it's what she expects from me. What you don't expect from me doesn't matter to her.
Side Note:
Once she started carrying her 642 she donated her old kimber pepper spray to me, I carry it at work. She wrote the CHP rules and gave the inservice on firearms and other weapons at her work so she's able to carry there. 
I'm sure you're a responsible gun owner. If I lived in the States and was mentally well, I probably would be too (I'm British and mentally ill). I don't want guns to be banned and I don't think it would do much good if they were (handguns were entirely banned here in 1997 but our murder rate is still roughly the same). But I also resent being branded a "gun grabber" simply for advocating a few sensible reforms (none of which are unique to me so I won't waste your time with them).
Here's the thing though. This is a liberal/progressive site. Liberals/progressives tend (as a very broad generalisation) to be for stricter gun control. This is also the internet, where the loudest and most emotive voice tends to carry the day. And the US has recently suffered several tragedies where firearms were involved. So yeah, people on the internet paint with too broad a brush, happens all the time. Maybe, as liberals, we should be a bit more thoughtful with what we say. Probably we should and if we were chatting about this in, say, a pub, I'm sure we would be. But this is the internet. And the illusion of anonymity, an audience and no repercussions means that people often act like pricks (see Penny Arcade's "GIFT"
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And finally, a lot of your fellow gun owners are against even the most logical regulation of firearms. Is it fair to stereotype you based on that? Of course not. But people do stereotype. Everyone does to some extent, all the time. We pretty much have to stereotype to some extent just to get through the day and it's an automatic part of our psychological make-up (see Social Identity Theory but note this is a subconscious process that can be overridden by conscious thought). Again, should we, as liberals, be better than that? Absolutely. But the fact is, we're often not (you should see some of the stereotypes I get over something as inconsequential as being a wrestling fan). Fair? No, but we do it anyway.
You don't like being considered a bad guy, don't be a bad guy and rest secure in the knowledge that they're either not referring to you or not being accurate if they do.
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