I'm gonna say it and I don't care what gun nuts think...

[TeamsterDem]

213. First off, the NRA has never "taught" me anything; I'm not a member and never have been

Second, I'm not a "nut" simply because I like millions of other Americans use my 2nd Amendment rights. I resent being labeled as if my free exercise of constitutional rights makes me a nut. You've never seen how I handle and safeguard my weapons; you're merely tarring me with a broad brush because you don't like guns and their owners. It's childish, friend.

I see some of you don't understand how an analogy works. Allow me to correct that. You see, an analogy isn't saying thing A and thing B are so exactly similar that they're actually the same exact thing. That, instead, would be a statement that "thing A and thing B are exactly the same thing." Instead, an analogy suggests that the two things share similar characteristics, and that in some limited cases it's useful to consider how you might treat one to know how to treat another. For example, just like a car, you wouldn't want to handle your gun while drunk. Those are similarities. But what you're wanting to do is say "well, my car has electronic fuel injection, and I can't seem to find that same unit on this 9mm, therefore they're entirely dissimilar and any discussion about them in analogical form is entirely useless." It would be if we were talking about fuel injection, but that's not what we're discussing - until someone feigning obtuseness makes some ridiculous exaggeration clearly far beyond the bounds of the analogy itself.

You needn't persist offending everyone with whom you disagree, labeling us all "nuts" and essentially suggesting that we were brainwashed by the NRA. Many of us hate the NRA and nearly all of what they stand for, and as such your implication that we're simply regurgitating something they "taught" us is childish, wrong, and pathetic. And by the way, you most certainly CAN "drive your kids to school in a car."