Does anyone here carry a firearm everywhere they go?

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78. "Compulsive toter", meet "compulsive gambling"

What Is Compulsive Gambling?
Moderate gambling, like moderate alcohol use, is an accepted part of our culture and causes no problems. As with alcohol use, however, gambling to excess is a common weakness that may lead to serious security problems.

Compulsive gambling, or pathological gambling as most psychiatrists prefer to call it, is an inability to stop gambling even when one recognizes that gambling is causing serious financial, family, work, or other problems.

Compulsive gambling parallels alcohol and drug addiction in many ways. Compulsive gamblers lose control over their behavior and commonly lie and cheat in order to continue their gambling. They frequently try, unsuccessfully, to cut down or quit.

Compulsive gambling does not involve use of a psychoactive substance, but the "action" which compulsive gamblers crave is an aroused, euphoric state comparable to the "high" sought by drug users. This aroused state is accompanied by changes in brain chemistry similar to those caused by alcohol or drugs. There may be a "rush," often characterized by sweaty palms, rapid heart beat, and nausea which is experienced during the period of anticipation.

Alcoholics and drug abusers develop "tolerance" for their drug of choice and then must increase their consumption in order to feel the same effects. Similarly, compulsive gamblers develop "tolerance" for the "action" and must increase the size of their bets or the odds against them to create the same amount of excitement.

http://www.wright.edu/rsp/Security/Eap/Gamble.htm

Do you really expect anyone to believe that the negative connotation generally percieved with that usage of the phrase, was unintended, after that way you've made other utterances of things with clearly negative connotations, which were very obviously deliberate - toward a certain demographic/s hereabouts?


"When it comes to carrying a gun, I think it is very important to understand one's motives for doing so."

Well, then, the million dollar question:

Why is it then, that you were applying the term "compulsive toter" to people who had shown no evidence of being such, before ever bothering to inquire as to the motivations of the people you applied it to?

Or did it just become important, now that you've been called on it?