The quintessential gun nut

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6. Well, you can mostly thank your allies.

The list of outrageous, crazy things in the media that pro-gunners have been saying in the past three weeks is creating an extreme image of the gun owner.

The anti-gun people don't have to do much when you have the 2nd Amendment absolutists comparing gun regulations to the yellow star Jews had to wear in Nazi Germany; to Hitler and Stalin; to time to start thinking about "killing some people"; to a second American revolution; to conjecturing that MLK Jr. would for all African-Americans carrying guns; etc.

Those of you out there who are sensible gun rights advocates need to be sounding rational and supporting something like universal background checks --- and not letting the NRA, Alex Jones, Louis Gohmert, Rush Limbaugh and the likes of Larry Platt be the public face of the pro-gun position.

I own two guns; I am not afraid of guns and I am not against people buying and owning guns -- but I support limiting the size of clips and I support universal background checks paid for by a tax on all guns sales.