---- I've had this dicussion on more than one occassion with Jewish friends who are virulently anti-gun. I just don't understand how they can be anti-self-defense....after all that history shows. ----
The irony about being "anti-gun" is that those guns just don't go off unless you take them out of their protective case/cabinet, load them, point them, then pull the trigger.
If someone is concerned about gun safety, they can still own a gun, just don't use it unless personal safety is an issue.
I think you could correctly classify some anti-gun feelings as hysteria.
I watched a fellow female law student TREMBLE as she handled an UNLOADED shot gun that was part of a mock trial. I mean the fear is beyond anything that is rational. She declared after the practice session "I hate guns and anyone who owns one." Well, well, well.....as you might imagine, I took the opportunity to point out that not one gun had ever jumped up, loaded itself and with malice aforethought SHOT someone. I asked her why she thought she was safer because she had no way to equalize the size/strenth differential between herself and the average man. She stuttered.
Reality just never, ever enters the mind of a liberal.
My father's younger sister was shot and killed accidently and he was a freak about guns. You had to totally disassemble them before bringing them into the house.