Right Wingers Are More of a Threat to Gun Owners Than Liberals

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6. Nor do I, really

Despite my part in these... "debates" (I really hate to apply such a noble term to what's going on DU this weekend...) I'm pretty neutral on guns. They're a tool, and nothing more.

What bugs me is the... delusions, as you call it. Not just the delusion that a lone guy with a concealed weapon could have made all the difference (fuck, for all we know, someone HAD a concealed weapon, permit or no - I doubt the theater has a pat-down policy), but also the massive river of delusion and nonsense that it's floating in.

If people could look at their guns like they look at their microwave, instead of fetishizing them as sacred objects and developing this weird, self-sustaining culture that never even tries to come up for air, I think we'd all be a hell of a lot better off, regardless of your position on owning, carrying, or whatever.