I am not a gun person. But for the gun persons, how about you speak out?

[ancianita]

44. I've owned and used guns and am not afraid of them. But anything beyond guns for food or

self defense are, to me "the perversion of guns. The fetishistic aspects." I see no reason right now to own a gun, even with 300 million of them floating around. I don't see any good conversations beyond the obvious reasons gun owners stroke each other with about "hunting" defenseless animals for food, or some story about self defense. Those I never heard when I did own guns.

My stance is that gun owners do nothing for society. They are cowardly and deluded by the act of ownership into thinking that they're safe and/or powerful. They're not. They're not facing the realities of dealing with injustices of others who are suffering the erosion of their other constitutional rights in this society.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. When gun owners see their fellow citizens getting beaten up, maced and dragged off to jail for exercising their constitutional right to protest injustices to this society, do they run out with their guns to protect these people from the gubmint? Hell, no. They don't protect anybody from anything. EVER. They're too cowardly. They just want to own guns for the illusion of power they get from it. Period.

Show me some stats -- not blog anecdotes -- to the contrary and I'll reconsider my claims.