My Anti-Gun Friends

My anti-gun-rights friends, you don’t seem to understand that crimes and atrocities committed by madmen are not valid grounds for infringing on the general public’s right to bear arms – a fundamental freedom. This is why you meet the constant resistance that perplexes, bewilders, baffles, and frustrates you.

You seem to believe just the opposite. You think the homicidal acts of psychopaths should provoke legislation. Proper reflection, while not under duress, is how you go about rationally resolving actual problems.

I as a Second Amendment advocate would like to accomplish more with you. Please don’t hate me for saying this: anti-gun bigotry unfortunately clouds your thinking, that’s all. Are you so blinded not to realize that gun owners want solutions with the same fervor you do. Atrocities are dreadful and harm everyone. Yes, the frequency is ghastly, but why now? The Second Amendment has always been here. Don’t get me started on where cultural sewage and morality trashing originates. You the reader can easily answer that question.

Proposals that hamper gun owners and the general public, instead of addressing crime and the root causes for homicidal outbursts makes gun-control advocates like you look foolish, or worse, bigots, and increase the resistance you face. Are you not able to see this? If not, I understand why you are constantly frustrated. My sympathy goes out to you. When you increase your efforts in desperate attempts to get anything at all done you appear more deceitful and resistance to you increases multiple-fold. That’s a bad thing -- you hurt us all, no one wins. And incidentally, your leaders are lying to you.