Reply #9: Even if that were true.

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I do not believe most gun owners fall into that category, but the ones that do are fucking batshit crazy. They aren't "going to" snap - they did a tsukahara triple toe loop inside quadruple axel over the edge a while ago, and licensing and actual gun ownership had little to do with the momentum that carried them there.

Own it people. You've got a lot more uptight angry fearful people in the "licensed gun owner" population per capita than in virtually any other strata of modern American society.

Even if this were true, so what? Is paranoia equivalent to action? Are we going to start penalizing people for being paranoid? Remember, the people who made this country were paranoid! They were downright terrified of creating a tyranny! Everything the did was an attempt to build a system of checks and balances that decentralized power - including military power!

These were people who called standing armies "dangerous to liberty".

Now you might think that firearm owners who hold the founders' vision concerning firearms to be "batshit crazy", but until they have actually committed crimes, they should be held harmless.

And, of course, unless these batshit crazy people have a long criminal history (that probably makes them ineligible to own firearms anyway), they are highly unlikely to commit crimes!