Your fear of MY guns is irrational. None have ever harmed a human or been used in a crime.

[stupidicus]

115. odd, I see no evidence of irrational fear of you or your guns

just concerns over the toll they extract from our society and a desire to lessen that.

Of course there are always the extremes regardless of the issue, but they are almost if not always a minority.

What's confusing, and gives this post a "lashing out" character (as percieved by some perhaps) seeking perhaps to put many unjustifiably under the wrong umbrella so to speak, is your list of things you would disallow contrasted with "Go regulate soft-drink size or something else equally as meaningful.". Without concrete knowledge of the positions they were defending and your reactions to them other than this, the reader has nothing to go on but your reaction here.

It seems to me that the vast majority would agree with your list, and perhaps add a few, but fall well short of the prohibition that you, like most of them, would take exception to.

Objectively speaking, I suppose this is really just a callout to those few who are in the prohibition camp, or appeared to be as a product of your dialogues with them, who likely don't fear anyone or their guns in particular, just being victimized by a gun period, or for anyone else to be for that matter.

Is that an unreasonable or irrational fear to have or to hold? We could ask one of the victims that almost got it a few weeks back, but sadly that's not possible, now is it? Speaking only for myself, I know what the business end of one looks like too, but won't allow that to put me in the prohibition camp. For those who have been a victim, either personally or through the loss of friends or family, I do have great empathy and sympathy for them, and see their reactions for what they are -- born of helplessness and loss like that seen from someone who's suffered a loss from a drunk driver.

Futility is a cold and merciless enemy, and the father of much desperation, irrationality, and unreasonability. It's easy to be it's victim and lash out in an environment like with the gun laws issue, that only increases it. I can understand and relate to the prohibition people much easier and better than I can or will the NRA types in their current form, and as they say, if they are erring, it's with caution, as opposed to with needless and predicable additional deaths. When and if the NRA becomes rationale and reasonable, then and only then will my pov on the matter change. I'm of course not saying that the prohibition people are right on the issue or with their treatment of you that presumably prompted this post, just that their motives are more noble than those they're really combatting, given what underlies their respective goals.