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In reply to the discussion: Here is when I bought my first gun [View all]Bake
(21,977 posts)I sleep like a baby at night.
Am I selfish? When it comes to my family, if you think I'm selfish, tough sh*t. And if you and your kind were to succeed in banning all guns (no you haven't said that explicitly, but it's pretty clear you'd be fine with that), then I and a multitude of others will gladly practice civil disobendience before I'll see my family endangered. Fortunately, I seriously doubt it would ever come to that.
I have no beef with you, but trust you? Hardly. If that makes me selfish, so be it. Do something about the Bushmasters and 30-round magazines. I'm fine with that, as I've said OVER AND OVER AGAIN. But I'm a law-abiding, responsible gun-owner. If the law changes, I'll reconsider that, but I'm likely to do a Thoreau on that one. And I'm not the only one. So those of your persuasion who want to make me a criminal, go ahead and try. You will fail.
Bake