I was speaking from my experience. Long Island, NY. PTA moms.
Women who were so opposed to toy guns that the idea of owning real guns was repugnant and inconceivable.
We wondered where they were. Certainly not in a 100 mile radius of us. Maybe they were closeted gun owners, and hopefully their guns were, too.
Your experience - Long Island, NY PTA moms who consider the idea of owning real guns "repugnant and inconceivable?" Ok...
And when my husband's job took him around the country, we heard these legends of guns and pickup trucks long ago. They were always about farm towns.
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"We heard these legends?"
FWIW, the school I noted in one of my earlier posts was in no "farm town" (as you lovingly put it), it was in Denver, CO. - though I do realize there are a few back east who consider Denver less than a legitimate metropolis (I have some friends from NYC I'm trying to educate).
But yes, I Iook at a substantial minority of Americans, well funded by a group that launders Russian campaign funds, trying to endanger the rest of us by fighting sensible, realistic safety regulations for guns "aggressive and virulent."
Trying to understand - your opinions, and those of a few PTA women you know (maybe it's a lot, dunno) - plus a few "legends of guns and pickup trucks" you heard from long ago, are what form the basis of your feeling that you are being somehow "endangered" by "a substantial minority of people" (a substantial minority of people well-funded by no less than the Russians) trying to maintain their constitutional right to own guns?
Does that about sum it up?
America has changed. We hate guns. You love them.
Are "we" not Americans too?
And "love guns?" Hardly. You make it sound like every gun owner has an altar in their home at which they burn incense and utter prayers to some unknown gun gods.
There are more of us and the status quo harms us. You must compromise.
Whoa! Shades of George Orwell...
Fantine, I think you can trust me on this, no one is "harming you."
However, everything you've shared thus far is beginning to make me wonder just how much the facts of this topic really matter compared to your fundamental feeling that real gun ownership is "repugnant and inconceivable."
Moreover, I think you've sufficiently demonstrated your inability here to objectively contribute to the topic of this thread without your animosity towards, and bias against guns, gun ownership, gun rights, and anyone who might have anything positive to say about guns surfacing immediately. Not that I didn't enjoy hearing about your PTA group, but lest any further discussion on the topic somehow add to the harm you believe is being inflicted upon you, maybe - and I say this in all love
- maybe, just maybe you should consider posting elsewhere.