# The "reasonable conversation about guns" that anti-gun Internet people want **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 21, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reasonable-conversation-about-guns-that-anti-gun-internet-people-want/656334 "2013-04-21T21:36:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 58
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reasonable-conversation-about-guns-that-anti-gun-internet-people-want/656334/58 "2013-04-22T17:29:41Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > The rise of the idea that the 2nd amendment guarentees the right to own any type of firearm is pretty new, it has coincided with the slow decline of white males’ stranglehold on power in the US. I’m sick to death of these scared little men from our backwaters dragging our culture down. Everyone has to wait until they can wrap their brains around integration, then we tread water waiting for them to accept women’s rights, then we have to impatiently wait while they figure out that gays are people too, now it’s global warming, evolution and guns. > [7 uncovered quotes that reveal just how crazy the NRA's become - Salon.com](http://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/7_uncovered_quotes_that_reveal_just_how_crazy_the_nras_become/) A fine post and excellent cite. Too bad Roberts isn’t half the Justice that Burger was. I used to be more tolerant of guns. I still don’t begrudge hunters their rifles and shotguns. I used to think if you were stupid enough to think that you need a handgun at home for self defense, go ahead and knock yourself out. Now I’m against any private ownership of handguns and any non-hunting weapons at all. It’s because gun owners have proven themselves time and time again to be mad as hatters. Somehow limiting someone to 10 shots without reloading is akin to castration. So I say fuck 'em, you want to be unreasonable, so will I. I hate to break it to you gun lovers, but the NRA does not represent you. They represent weapons manufacturers. The same ones who make money ass over applecart everytime you fools go on buying binges, which you do every time Diane Feinstein farts. So they scare the piss out of you by making you think your pwecious little guns are going to be taken from you, you go ahead and spend all your spare cash on guns and ammos, the manufacturers clean up and kick back your money to the NRA. Enjoy it while you can- I don’t know if we’ll get sensible gun control this year, next year, the next decade, or the next century, but we’ll get there. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reasonable-conversation-about-guns-that-anti-gun-internet-people-want/656334)._