Reply #15: I support the 2nd amendment

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I've owned guns. I used to hunt. Although my feelings on that have changed, I would not deny anyone else the right.

Being for gun control is not being anti-gun or anti 2nd amendment. This is a meme the NRA has been very successful in implanting. I want it to be harder to get guns, especially handguns. The NRA wants to make it easier. The NRA's positions are extremely right wing, and not just on guns.

Gun control is far more pertinent when you live in the city. I've lost track of the number of times I've heard guns go off within a couple of blocks of my house.

A couple years ago we had an ex special ops Vietnam Vet living next door. One day he went off the deep end, took a hostage. Cops running around, weapons drawn. They told us to get inside and lay down on the floor. It was resolved peacefully; but then it turned out he had a weapons cache in his basement. Scary shit.

It made me re-evaluate a lot of my thinking about guns.