It is time to unfuck America.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

141. Doesn't this tiresome discussion belong in the Gun Dungeon?

Many years ago, I was a Mod there for three long, boring months.

The gun advocates told me that I would be convinced of their position after being exposed to it.

They were sure that I would become a gun enthusiast if I ever had the joy of firing a gun. Well, I had fired a gun. I used to have a boyfriend who took me target shooting. It was boring, and if I hadn't liked the guy, I would have said, "Been there, done that," after the first session. It's been nearly fifty years since I dated that guy, and I have not fired or even held a gun since, and I have no interest in doing so. Fancy that.

They talked about other countries.

Right. Having lived and traveled in several countries where gun ownership is difficult or impossible or where guns are not part of the culture (and most people aren't interested in owning one, either) I came away thinking that the Second Amendment absolutists were scaredy-cats who wanted to look like lions.

Just found out that an old high school classmate is a gun nut because he wants to protect himself from "home invasions." So I look up his Facebook profile, and he lives in a town of 12,000 people surrounded by farms. So I say, "You have a lot of home invasions in (name of town)?" And he writes back, "Yes, there was one ten years ago."

AARGH.