Guns in America: For every criminal killed in self-defense, 34 innocent people die

[krispos42]

49. Neither of us do that, I think, which is good.

And something I respect about you.

The difficulty, in part, comes from trying to create a brief, common name for the sides of the argument, and we're not doing well with that.

"We" as a nation, I mean.

Some people on DU think gun ownership should be a tightly-regulated privilege extended by the government. They don't want civilian ownership of firearms except for a very few, and very justifiable, reasons, and the guns to be owned also under tight regulation. These people could be reasonably called "anti-gun".

Past that , there is a broad spectrum of opinions that defy easy phrasing, so we get "hoplophobe" and "ammosexual" and others from a fairly long list of names, particularly when in an echo chamber or when things get emotional.

And making assumptions about other people's ultimate motives makes insults even easier to hurl.