Those overwhelmed by this decadence tend to start with a premise--in this case, that guns are too dangerous to be used for self-defense--and to construct arguments and beliefs, often amounting to a delusional system--and LAWS-- around it, refusing to consider the possibility that their arguments, beliefs, and laws are based on a false premise. In this respect--as well as in others--they are very much like religious fundamentalists.
Because of their false premises, delusions, falty logic, commitment to groupthink, and refusal to face truth, these people lead many, including themselves, astray and make themselves vulnerable to the manipulations of self-serving politicians.
Unfortunately, many of them are determined to force their objectives and conclusions on everyone else, and this is what makes them so dangerous and so scary.
They are going to consider every possibility and do everything imaginable except the very thing that could lead to the solution of a problem--viz. face, accept, and articulate the truth.
If these people think that wind chimes and cactuses will protect good people from brutal, determined murderers, they are too nutty to be passing out advice. Unfortunately, millions of people--including themselves--lack the wit to comprehend this.
Well said. How can these people truly be so naive or stupid or both?