You were on "their side," before there was even a debate. Just look at your posts on ET. Pretending that you were swayed by "caricature" just exposes your smallmindedness. I guess you've never heard of the Montana Militia: http://www.militiaofmontana.com/ They are every bit the kind of gun nuts I described. I still don't understand your association of guns with the Bible. Guns are anti-Christian. I don't know which sentences you were refering to when you asked us to replace "gun-owners" with "Christians." Are you suggesting that the Bible is anti-gun? Hmm, I have to ponder that one.
How about the power imbalance which exists between a violent male criminal, and his female intended victim? Riddle me this: How can this potentially deadly imbalance be corrected without a firearm? Pepper spray doesn't quite cut it, you know. Aren't Libs supposed to be supportive of women's rights?
Damn right.... My sister was walking to her car after work in the dark, and 3 shifty looking dudes started paralleling her. So she pulled her .38 out of her purse and held it along side her leg, so that they could see it, and they stopped dead in their tracks. A few days later, the Popo came by and warned them about some guys that had been mugging women around the area. Her guys fit the description. See, you never hear those stories, just the crap that these bozos are spouting here about road rage, etc.
Still don't understand what the anti-gunners are sceered of. So, a Gallup poll says that Republicans are much more likely to own a firearm than Democrats. Most anti-gunners are democrat. Most Republicans were anti-slavery and most Democrats were pro-slavery. So, are the Democrats of today still angry that they lost the civil war of 1861-65? Do the Democrats of today want to disarm Republicans so they can pull some kind of coup?
Why don't you answer this - In an arms confiscation program, who are likely to win? And what do you think would have happened to my sister if she wasn't armed? A dipshit would answer that she should have been able to reason with them, right? So where do you stand...
Sorry, but only a fool is not troubled by the existence of an even bigger fool with a gun. A bigger fool with a gun who also happens to be a paranoiac.
I guess it's hard to get through your thick skull. There is no arms confiscation program. If you can't tell who's going to get the machine guns, banning all means you cut off the supply. Then you regulate the small arms so that the bad guys can't get them. In your sister's case, she won because she was better armed. Could it be that the bad guys didn't have guns because they weren't able to get them? What would've happened if the bad guys had machine guns and your sister only had a pistol? Are you suggesting that your sister should pull the gun and have a shoot out?
I'm glad that the episode ended well for your sister. However, I'm surprised that the thugs didn't pull out their automatic assault weaponry in response. Perhaps it was casual Friday. If someone had snuck up on your sister from behind and mugged her, then he would also have gotten the gun in her purse. Consider what harm that item could then do in the wrong hands. Around and around we go. Let's just say that a lot of innocent people are lucky because it ended well for your sister.