Someone, in the comments of a diary somewhere on this site, asked why there is no reasonable discussion from the "RKBA" contingent on this site. While I don't consider myself much of a member of the RKBA contingent, I do find myself commenting on diaries here and there mainly out of frustration over what I interpret as a massive experience gap between gun owners and non-gun owners... and even between subsets of gun owners.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that my experience very closely resembles the experience of the vast majority of gun owners. These are the folks from whom you will never hear. These folks think nothing more of the gun locked safely away downstairs than you do about the tennis racket you take out twice a year. They don't kill other people, they don't do stupid things with their guns. Everything about their experience with guns is boring and non-sensational. If we got rid of every gun owner but these folks, you would still have a shit-load of gun owners, but nothing much to talk about with respect to guns in this country.
So you can probably imagine that it can be a touch irritating to be a member of this site and read things that just don't make a ton of sense, or are simply not true when it comes to gun owners in general.
So rather than try to follow the diaries of others and mount a defense comment-by-comment, I'll simply spell out my thoughts here and then leave well enough alone.
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