Reply #36: Isn't the burden on the one changing the law?

[DirkGently]

There wasn't a problem with law-abiding gun owners being persecuted for defending themselves in the first place. Therefore, it is the gun lobby who was paranoid in insisting upon the change. It's a bad change which does it make it easier for an aggressor to claim self-defense falsely.

But that's the balance the gun lobby claims we need. First, make absolutely SURE no one is made to feel cautious about killing in self-defense. THEN worry about the possibility that "bad guys" will escape prosecution for murder because of it.

It's the wrong balance, because, like most of the pro-gun legislative agenda, it relies on false claims that gun owners are everywhere persecuted and threatened.