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In reply to the discussion: Patton Oswalt: What gun owners think they look like... [View all]The Magistrate
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The sort of person who proclaims any regulation is the start of confiscation, the sort who will proclaim a need to keep a gun handy at all times 'for safety', the sort who will lovingly detail the minutia of the various types owned and claims anyone who cannot speak in such a manner about the various makes and models is not qualified to comment on the subject, the sort who amasses large numbers of fire-arms, the sort who projects various post-apocalyptic scenarios in which everyone will need a gun for protection from 'roving gangs' and can manage it with a straight face: persons displaying these pug-marks may be taken to be almost certainly persons who have a fetishist fixation on firearms.
It is one of the facts of the situation that it is exactly such people who are the public face of campaign against regulation of guns, exactly such people who make up 'Team NRA' and its ilk, exactly such people who produce the bulk of the vitriolic argument against gun regulation on message boards and forums. It is a necessary step to discredit and stigmatize such persons, to see to their being regarded as we have come to regard a fellow who gets into a car after a couple of beers, or who wants to light up in a restaurant, or any other of a variety of things which people now by and large look down on as behaviors society strongly disapproves of, however they may once have been regarded.