Meet George Zimmerman: He Is the NRA

[caseymoz]

11. I would put it like this:

They're so certain of their ideology about guns, that they can't tell when it undercuts their intentions. That is to say, the better ones of them are like that. They are absolutely certain that guns are such a good thing to have, and that the Second Amendment is such an unassailable idea, that they can't examine how it might actually play out badly in the real world.

Fact: nobody has really tried what they're doing. Historically, America was not really a gun-saturated society before liberals came around and ruined it. That's a myth. Old Western towns had people check their guns when they entered. The Second Amendment has never been legally interpreted the way they're insisting it be now. The guns today are technologically superior to anything in previous generations.

They can't honestly say they know what kind of society, what kind of conditions, they will create. The indications aren't good, but they're not interested in knowing that. They impugn and attack people who question it in any way, meaning that they're not willing to be found wrong; they'll only accept being proven correct.

I'll also add: gun marketing is definitely a huge part of the drive toward more guns and more legality, and less application of common sense regarding guns.

Those are the better ones. The worst ones are paranoid, Timothy-McVeigh, David Koresh nuts, who want to own guns because they have all kinds of unfounded fears and filled with rage looking for an excuse to create tragedy. As incidents like the Martin case begin to pile up, all of a sudden, the better ones are going to wake up and notice they're in bed with crazy rats.