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In reply to the discussion: Man shopping for coffee creamer at Walmart attacked by vigilante for carrying gun he was legally per [View all]Orrex
(63,215 posts)Funny you should mention him.
You make a series of good points, particularly re: mental health as a national issue, and that's probably the lion's share of the problem right there.
I admit that I tend to bristle at the popular mantra that guns don't kill people, typically with a joke about "spoons make people fat" or some other meme. Likewise the offhand dismissal of concerns about firearm safety, as if advocates for sensible gun regulation are all raving lunatics. That's as unfair as the assumption that gun advocates are all unhinged rightwing survivalist types.
A good friend has a meme posted right now on his FB page about a man who left a loaded rifle propped against his wall and it never once discharged in all of the weeks that it stood there.
Frankly, I find such attitudes insulting and on par with LaPierre's bullshit, and it troubles me when I see echoes of it here on DU. Your response is much more reasonable and level-headed, and I thank you for it.