jones wrote:
What a load of horseshit.
Jonesy, it's all about what you consider your normal. I have a few Republican friends. Their frame of thinking is completely different from my more liberal friends. I used to live in the SF Bay, and some of these guys, otherwise normal fun-loving individuals, would have arsenals in their homes. And if you asked them what are all these guns for, they'd tell you about growing up in the unsafe Midwest, or they would bring up images of Hurricane Katrina and tell you that one day an earthquake will hit SF and it will be bedlam: anyone without a gun will be at the mercy of rampaging gangs.
You and I can't see the world like this. But these guys do. And it shapes the gun debate. This constant fear that the next man could take you out, and it's up to you to defend your family.
I have an almost too simplistic view which is 2nd amendment was made at a time when people were forming new disparate communities often at risk of raiders. Now most Americans live in urban or peri-urban settlements which are well-protected by organised police forces. Maybe Americans should review the whole 2nd amendment in light of this new reality. Not dance around it by arming teachers and banning bump stocks
