Thom Hartman: The 2nd Amendment was ratified to help preserve slavery.

[branford]

102. Which is precisely my point.

Who owns guns and the reasons for support of gun rights is a complicated issue, well beyond the simple dichotomy of liberal vs. conservative.

I wasn't being nit-picky, but I apparently succeeded in demonstrating the complexity of the issue.

As is evident from my other posts in this thread, I support gun rights (born, live and work in NYC, btw), but I also support some constitutional restrictions such as universal background checks (subject to the details of the actual legislation proposed). Although I'm not necessarily referring to you personally, the constant stream of invective against law-abiding gun owners, including the quite explicit allegations that they either are, or support, racists or child killers is, quite frankly, offensive and off-putting. Often the greatest supporters of gun restrictions are their own worst enemies in the national gun rights debate.

And no, my degrees are not in sociology. I have a B.A. in history, and a law degree. I am a practicing trial attorney. I also do not own a gun, nor have any reason nor desire to do so.