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In reply to the discussion: I am not a gun person. But for the gun persons, how about you speak out? [View all]ancianita
(36,220 posts)I have as much right as you to criticize the general use of guns no matter how long or short a time I've been here. You're overreacting and personalizing this, which isn't the least bit constructive.
Anyway. Your reason is fair, and if you're representative, why not school me. A small majority of gun owners own guns for hunting and sport. The fight to keep guns for those reasons doesn't outweigh the bloodshed that gun use, overall, has brought. No gun owner I know of has an answer for the children killed since the 70's from guns.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/protect-children-not-guns-2012.pdf
If you don't want to protect anyone but your family with your gun, I don't care. But for all the hoo-rah over gun owners' precious constitutional rights, they sure as hell do sound as if everyone else's constitutional rights can go to hell as long as they can still cling to their guns. If they can show up at an Obama speech to show off their rights, they sure as hell can show up at a constitutionally protected assembly to do the same. Are you thinking that gun owners know that they'll always be outnumbered, always outgunned?