Unfortunately, I think I'm losing the most rabid peacenik's interest. In trying to help her rationalize it all, I pointed her to quotations from her heroes, Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, where they proclaimed instances where gun use was morally legitimate. She refuses to believe them, and is rather upset about it. Her staggered comments included, "well, fine, violence is always the way then, I guess" and "well Gandhi was wrong then." It looks like I watered that sapling a bit too quickly, and her Liberal chemistry is rejecting the transfusion of reality.