I hear people on DU say those with CWP rarely use their guns to shoot others

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111. Again, do you want your daughter to date a person accused of being a violent rapist?

Accused of such a crime by a frightened woman who so fears for her life or maybe the lives of her kids that she won't come forward, choosing instead to hide out in a battered woman's shelter. Meanwhile, he's strutting around town, inviting your daughter to go to the movies.

I do not believe you are going to loan such a man (no prior criminal history but a trail of stories about his violent past) the gas money to take her to the cinemaplex. Whether the daughter is 12 or 29. You are being intellectually dishonest to suggest you would do anything differently than I would in these circumstances.

In fact your failure to act might suggest irresponsible parenting on your part. Not all bad people get brought to justice. They are still bad people. But don't take anyone else's word for it. Let your daughter find out for herself. And I am talking a rhetorical daughter here, but I am sure you do think about protecting your own kids too.

Sorry if making it personal bothers you; however, many of us have no choice. Gun violence has touched our lives firsthand.

My husband teaches at one of the schools where a shooter went on a rampage. There have been 57 school shooters since then. And 127 students of all ages have lost their lives while seeking an education. One of the teachers locked down her class. She found a gun in the wastebasket after they left.

It kinda is personal. My next-door neighbor shot himself in the head. He was a teacher for 30 years.

A future notorious serial killer lived down my street.

It is personal. And my ranks are multiplied every time someone pulls a trigger in this country and kills someone else. There will come a tipping point when you can find no one in the nation untouched by gun violence on a personal level.

You are not going to change our minds. We've been traumatized. PTSD caused by your cohorts. Some reasonable decisions need to be made. Either we agree to a treaty of peace as a people and stop the gun violence directed against our loved ones or we declare open warfare and divide into warring city states. Sometimes I think that's what some gun owners want. Their damn prepper fantasies are other people's nightmare.

So, does that mean there is no middle ground at all? Or is that where the target is hanging?