Your second amendment rights are getting in the way of our rights.

[baldguy]

169. This thread makes me ill.

The OP presents a reasoned - if emotional - argument for peaceful peopleto be left alone to pursue their right to pursue happiness, and to assemble in their right to assemble peaceably. And it ought to be emotional. In return RW gun massacre apologists who for some reason are allowed to post on DU offer inane little jokes, belittlement of the author of the OP, cries of "THAT'S NOT A RIGHT!" and an irrational defensiveness more appropriate for a 4-yr old, than and adult who wishes to claim the questionable "right" to take away the life of another human being with extreme violence.

The only way for shit like the mass murders such as in Aurora to end is for you gun worshipers to FUCKING GROW UP! If you want to be thought of as "responsible gun owners" then you've got BE RESPONSIBLE! It doesn't stop at your front door, and it's not limited to you hip pocket. Your RESPONSIBILITY extends to your community, your city, your state and your country.

To be truly RESPONSIBLE you've got to aggressively advocate for RESPONSIBLE things: universal registration of guns, universal licensing of gun owners - with the ability for the govt to refuse to grant them, allowing communities & local govts to ban guns totally, limits on the size & capacity of ammo clips, an absolute ban on automatic weapons, severe restrictions on semi-automatic weapons & most of all STOP VOTING FOR POLITICIANS WHO OPPOSE THESE MEASURES!

Until then the idea of "responsible gun owner" will always be a myth - or at best just a sad, sick joke.