Police: Ex-Student Sold Gun in Pa. School Shooting

[Helen Highwater]

63. I also served 2 tours in Nam but I didn't walk around with a gun, I dropped bombs

from high altitudes which might explain how I came to the exactly opposite position from yours.
I asked a question here a month or so ago, one of my very first posts after coming here by invitation from my brother in law who I probably shouldn't identify right now...he knows I am in a 32 year same sex relationship and said this forum was gay friendly...as it seems mostly to be...but after I asked this question I was greeted by several pretty snide and snarky retorts that didn't actually offer any rational answer to my initial query. I almost gave up but thought I'd give it a little more slack and hang around for a while. Here is my copied & pasted original question:
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Why would any rational person, even one who has lost a loved one to senseless violence, want to reduce the ability of millions and millions of decent law-abiding citizens to defend their families and themselves against a tiny number of loons bent on committing mayhem? How does making it more difficult for me to protect my family help to stop thugs and criminals, who happen to be among the most ardent "gun control" supporters in the country?

It's no mystery why thugs and criminals are staunchly for "gun control", they would LOVE
it if decent people were denied access to defensive guns...what is not easy to figure out is why any supposedly intelligent person regardless of political party or ideology would support efforts to reduce the right to self-defense that is probably the most salient and basic human right of all. Can someone who wants to limit my 2nd Amendment rights please answer this?
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I didn't include a little bit of history in that post, which was that I and my then new partner were coming out of a bar in Tampa (we were both attached to McDill AFB) when 4 guys with clubs or bats started to come after us screaming obscene insults - I was carrying my military issued sidearm (it wasn't strictly legal but back then it wasn't exactly ILlegal either) and I opened up my jacket so they could see it...the 4 thugs turned around and ran off. I have not much reason to believe they wouldn't have beaten us maybe to death if I hadn't had my weapon.