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billh58

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6. A majority of Americans,

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 01:12 PM

Jun 2014

including American gun owners, understand and agree with this observation. It is the very vocal right-wing gun lobby and it's NRA/ALEC apologists who hide behind the Second Amendment and scream about "self-defense" from boogeymen and unknown scary assailants.

In reality the OP nails it: hypervigilant gun fetishists are a product of the gun manufacturers' (read death merchants') marketing campaign to sell more guns to people who do not need them and inundate our streets with gun violence. The Second Amendment does not protect a right to use deadly weapons for recreational purposes, no matter what semi-literate gun nuts proclaim.

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