I REMEMBER DU

[Raksha]

168. You made a very good point,

right here: "...it's all the fault of criminals and bad apples whom everyone agrees "should never have been allowed to have a gun in the first place." Except, of course, the day before that "bad apple" shot up a school yard, s/he was a "law abiding, responsible firearm owner" whose right to own and use that firearm the gun community fought to protect."

As you say, the ball *IS* in your opponent's park.

If DU is any kind of a microcosm of America, it makes me very hopeful to see everyone get so furious at the gun lobby at the same time. I can't recall that ever happening before--not to quite this degree anyway. They don't have any more power than we collectively allow them to have, and we've allowed them to have way too much for too long. And too many people have died because of it.