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In reply to the discussion: We have elevated gun lust to a religion in this country. [View all]Don C. Nuttin
(84 posts)I am a country lawyer. I represented a fellow charged with aggravated robbery a few years ago. He was an intravenous meth user and was a big man with a lot of physicality. The mastermind of the robbery didn't even give him a gun. He figured my client would more effectively terrify the victims without one. The other day another fellow who I have known for a good, long while and who took the robber in when he completed treatment and was placed on probation called me about the robber. The fellow who called me is a subscriber to the worldview of a website called Prison Planet. It is perhaps the most extreme right-wing paranoid nightmare fantasy out there. It is far, far beyond crazy. The caller told me that the robber had burgled 5,000 rounds of ammunition from him. He wanted advice. The advice I didn't give him was "you really don't need 5,000 rounds of ammunition." I did offer to talk to the robber and see if things could be made right. I would prefer nobody gets killed. I don't get the guns. The guys most likely to have them are the craziest, most violent guys out there. It really is pretty sick.