I don't understand the animosity towards DU gun owners.

[Pholus]

368. All too easy...

I'm surprised you fell for such an obvious and unsubtle opening on my part, but I'll take it.

So, you are really going to argue that this entire sentence: "We all suffer because of people's obsession with owning guns and god help anyone in this country if they dare suggest gun control, never mind banning them altogether." is a direct call for an immediate "seizure" of 250 million guns?

Really?

Have we really sunk that low in basic sentence diagramming and reading comprehension that you cannot see how the words "never mind" sets the phrase off?

Or is it deliberate? You merely *wished* someone would say "grab the guns" and so you pounced on something close. That *would* fit in more with the cutesy high-fiving kinds of posts you've made elsewhere in this thread. And it is true that its hard to find any sentiment proposing any substantial limitations on gun ownership publically so I guess you might have to make do. After all, the well-funded gun lobby goes out of their way to absolutely destroy anyone who crosses them (seemingly as vindictive but with MUCH deeper pockets than scientology).

In either case, that whoosh/sonic boom was the entire point of liberalmuse's post going right over your head as you explicitly demonstrated its point. Why is there such animosity towards gun owners on DU? Because the ones getting the negative attention (not ALL gun owners, for the record) are just like you, sir. Even in near total triumph so thin skinned that even a rhetorical mention of gun controls of any sort is interpreted and acted upon immediately and forcefully as a direct existential attack. Something apparently rising to the level of veiled threats about support for any activities of the Democratic Party ("I'm more on your side than theirs" implies you might consider that position malleable if you become unhappy). That's of course not what you meant since that would mean you were in violation of the site rules, but please try to incorporate more precision in your choice of words in the future.

Overall, pathetic. But hardly unexpected. I do wish you the best in your OTHER endeavors though. Just not the ones involving gun rights.