No, I'm not going to register my guns.

[Lizzie Poppet]

299. Yay! Amateur long-distance psychoanalysis!

You elected to initiate the resort to insult, chum; don't whinge when you get a little of it back. I suspect there is precisely zero point to attempting rational discussion with someone who trots out bullshit amateur psychoanalysis mixed with transparent dicto simpliciter fallacies. But what the hell? I've got nothing better to do for a few minutes.

Are there those among the tens of millions of gun owners whose fear of coming to harm can reasonably be describes as being "terrified," whose fear can be said to override reason? Given that total, I'd say that's a statistical near-certainty. Are they anything more than a statistical blip? Not bloody likely. Certainly not if one's definition of irrational fear isn't so broad as to have already encompassed the fear of being victimized by a spree killer with an "assault weapon." The probability of the latter for any given American is so remote as to barely exist...yet take a look at all the shrill hand-wringing over it on DU for the last couple weeks.

As for the research demonstrating a correlation between gun ownership and gun-violence victimization, trust me: I understand the difference between correlation and causation. I understand how other factors effect the applicability of those studies' correlation percentages. I understand that even the studies whose analytic methodologies aren't a complete horrorshow do not result in probabilities that can be blindly applied to any given individual. And so forth.

Make of any of that what you will. Given your last post, I suspect it will merely be another vulgar output of broad-brushing. So surprise me.

Or don't. It's not like there's a limit on ignore lists.