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GM of 4 Letter Outbursts
I typically don't engage the true believers in the "guns are bad" camp, but I couldn't sit idly by earlier tonight and got tangled up in the "discussion"-- if you consider talking to a brick wall discourse, at any rate.
It occurred to me that the primary reason I was having so much difficulty reaching this person was that they honestly lived in a dream world of sunshine and lollipops. A loose quote from them: "You can choose to be paranoid and arm yourself to the teeth, or choose to trust the people who live around you and work on making this a safer reality for everyone."
Considering the kid lives less than 15 minutes from the Lower 9 and St. Roch, and a stone's throw from where the Hollygrove used to be... I found that to be pretty hilarious.
And then it hit me. The kid never leaves a 20 square block part of the city where his type is not only the norm... it's the only type there is!
So here's a question for those of you who know true anti-gun people:
Have any one of them been directly exposed to violence in their lives, or the lives of those they care about?
Obviously, there's going to be some. Brady and his wife being an obvious example, as well as one of their other co-founders IIRC. But as a general trend... are they just really sheltered people as a whole?
It occurred to me that the primary reason I was having so much difficulty reaching this person was that they honestly lived in a dream world of sunshine and lollipops. A loose quote from them: "You can choose to be paranoid and arm yourself to the teeth, or choose to trust the people who live around you and work on making this a safer reality for everyone."
Considering the kid lives less than 15 minutes from the Lower 9 and St. Roch, and a stone's throw from where the Hollygrove used to be... I found that to be pretty hilarious.
And then it hit me. The kid never leaves a 20 square block part of the city where his type is not only the norm... it's the only type there is!
So here's a question for those of you who know true anti-gun people:
Have any one of them been directly exposed to violence in their lives, or the lives of those they care about?
Obviously, there's going to be some. Brady and his wife being an obvious example, as well as one of their other co-founders IIRC. But as a general trend... are they just really sheltered people as a whole?