Reply #38: Still waiting for you to state what a gun loon is in your world

[ProgressiveProfessor]

I live out in the twigs (that is well past the sticks). Out here, guns are tools and the loons are the ones who come out here without them, especially in snake season. Its not the wild west, we don't shoot at each other, but they are necessary. Recently a neighbor had one of their dogs bit by a rattlesnake, inside their garage. The dog survived (it wasn't a Mohave Green) the snake was dispatched with a 44.mag shot shell by one of their daughters.

Because we are out in the twigs, we are notionally 30 minutes response time from the nearest cop shop (county sheriff in our case). If there is a problem, be it an animal or a person we are on our own. Again, firearms are tools here, not objects of worship.

Gun control has clear racist roots which continue today. It is also classist in its impact, especially in NYC, Chicago, Washington DC and other places with draconian rules. In those situations those with money can get firearms, the poor can not. Why so called liberal and progressives support such repression is beyond me. Private firearm ownership is indeed a progressive value.