[CT] Down to people swearing at each other

[Daniel Moran]

Maybe we should take a break from the gun talk.

For the record, when you personalize your discussion with comments like 
"you don't get it" -- shit, isn't that obvious? If the other guy "got it" 
he'd agree with you. Apparently he's getting something else -- that doesn't 
make him wrong.

It may surprise people on this list to know that I own a gun. A friend is 
keeping it for me -- I have 5 kids in the house and the gun's not here and 
won't be here unless I decide there's an urgent need for it. But if I do 
need it, I don't want to have whatever the current waiting period is to go 
get it. Now, I got that gun because of the conduct of a particular person 
who I probably don't need to name at this point -- but I suspect that a lot 
of the gun owners out there (most, in all likelihood) got their guns with 
similar sorts of motivation. One of my close friends was a member of the 
NRA for 3-4 years without owning a gun -- people thought she was a nut, but 
she felt that the 2nd Amendment was important and needed protecting. Did I 
agree with her? Nope, I think the 2nd Amendment is busted. But I respected 
her position, damn straight.

A little more respect both ways might help here.

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