Woman (65) shoots burglary suspect in garage

[Nuclear Unicorn]

108. "I don't understand gun love."

If you cannot properly apprehend a thing then it stands to reason you cannot properly comprehend the thing.

You might as well complain you can't understand minorities and their "civil rights love" or women and their "equal wage love." If you have the privilege of living a safe and secure life where your very existence has not been meaningfully challenged (or violated) then perhaps those who lack that luxury would appear as inconsolable agitators.

But that doesn't mean you're right, it just means you're privileged.

Those who lack privilege must instead resort to exerting their rights because it is all they have left and no one will defend those rights except themselves and those like them.

And before you pop-off with the stereotypes about white males hicks please remember that Otis McDonald of Chicago v McDonald was an elderly African American gentleman and that the fastest growing segments of the gun-owning public are those who are most vulnerable -- women and minorities.

There are no "bad guys" living in my imagination I'd ever shoot. I'd rather use my fine mind to avoid that kind of conflict.

And what of everyone else -- armed or otherwise -- who were unable to avoid conflict? You're effectively blaming them for being victims.

Worse still, you set yourself up as the moral paragon and judge everyone else who fails to live up to your standard apparently without concern that they have not enjoyed your circumstances -- or is that their fault as well?

Unless you're running a shuttle service to move everyone to your world you have no right to condemn them for the world they are consigned to live in.