Why is the firearms issue being treated as a zero sum game?

[hunter]

36. Must be why my wife and I have always lived and worked in rough U.S.A....

... both "urban" in the pejorative racist white Republican sense, and "rural" in pejorative affluent white tech-boy Libertarian sense.

Maybe that makes me feel superior, I don't know.

Maybe my beat up old U.S.A. pickup truck, Catahoula dog sleeping on my foot as I write this, decades lapsed hunting skills, and knife scar on my arm acquired in a fight makes me a poser of some kind.

Actually, I am a poser. My basic nature is "crazy homeless guy." The only reason I've avoided that lifestyle for about 90% of my adult life now is that it's so damned boring. I hated living in my broken down car even though I was really good at it.

And deeper down I don't like being the harmless comic relief when I'm riding in the back of a cop car or locked up in a psych ward. (Those are the basis of some of my funniest stories, however... Hunter really is crazy.)

I have stories about gun violence I don't tell here on DU. PTSD sorts of stories. I get called to jury duty every few years, as a matter of formality, but it's unlikely I'll ever serve on a jury. I've seen too much. They don't even ask anymore.

The lead/insecticide/television stuff is reality. And terrifying.