To our friends who claim they need guns to protect them from the Government

[haele]

64. The problem with gun rights are the gun fetishists.

Most gun owners I am aquainted with - even some of the die-hard "I need my gun for self-protection" types - are not against reasonable restrictions and background checks.
The problem reasonable gun owners have is with the paranoid freaks hyped up on hate who say they'll shoot anyone who looks sideways at them when they go about their "business", whether lawful or unlawful, whether responsible or not.
Unfortunatly, the fairly sane ones get caught up with the paranoids - and don't seem to see the difference between them, or are willing to "protect the rights" of the paranoid types because somehow, they think that their collection of sport guns and responsible pleasure-seeking activities at the range is the same as the guy (or gal) who has an arsenal in the basement and is looking forward to the end of civilization where they can emerge the last great hope for the future of mankind.

Many of those paranoid types are heavily involved in drugs or in exclusionary sects that believe everyone else is deviant or going to hell, so they have no problems taking away the rights of or simply killing you or any member of your family who don't fit their views of a "right thinking person". These are the people that need to have the foot put down on them, because if you allow them power, they will happily destroy your world and replace it with theirs - with all sorts of restrictions for those who don't fall in lockstep with their world-view, instead of a few common sense restrictions that protect the majority that are simply a minor inconvenience to other sane people.
The fetishists don't have any sense of justice or equal rights, only the law as they see it. No discussions. No consideration for any situation. Their world is black and white.

Seperate yourself from them, or you will find yourself going off the cliff with the crazies - you know, the people who really do need to be on a mental health watch list, even though from casual observation, they look and act the same as the average American gun owner.

Haele