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[Bettie]

31. Unfortunately, we'll never win this argument

in fact, the regulation part is stripped out more every day. We're at the point where it is pretty much a free-for-all. Any regulations in one city are negated by the fact that three miles away, there's a place where you can buy whatever you want and tote it home to fulfill whatever murderous fantasy you may have.

I have a right wing brother who is a gun nut. He tells me regularly that the right of human beings to be alive is nothing next to his right to own whatever gun he wants to have. He is angry that he cannot have fully automatic weapons. He honestly believes that if anyone so much as sets foot on his property, he has the absolute right to kill them for trespassing.

He's a nutcase, but he's not alone. Far too many of the "responsible gun owners" are like him, so afraid or filled with hate that they are eager, salivating for a chance to kill and get away with it.

Me, I'd just like to see fewer people dying in our streets due to other people thinking it is their sacred right to take their lives.