[Reeses]

For a significant part of the population the thought, the awareness, of their own mortality is excruciating

Projection! YOU find your own mortality excruciating. Read the article, it talks about you. I would guess then that you believe in an infinite afterlife so what's the problem? I myself am not afraid to die, look at it as my first day of peace and rest. I've never understood that hyper sense of survival. To me, dying in a car wreck unexpectedly is preferable to a long ugly battle with the Grim Reaper.

[ricpic]

Reeses - you're right. I am afraid of death. But not to the point of denying it. That was my point. The anti-gun crowd can't stand THE THOUGHT of guns because they can't face their own deaths.
For them, gun = death. And they can't hack it.
P.S. I don't believe in an afterlife.