Some answer freely and honestly, and those answers(as I have repeatedly pointed out) are appreciated, but lets not pretend that there are not also those who instantly oppose any questions at all, those respond with venom-not to things said, but to things they say are inevitably going to be said by those who asked the questions in the first place. I’ve got no problem if you wish to respond in kind to nastiness aimed at you, but when you automatically assume you know which way a conversation is going to go and take preemptive strikes to shut down conversation the only person at fault is you. That imaginary “anti” attack didn’t happen in this thread..but the nonimaginary counterattack certainly did more than once.
As to ExTank’s depiction of me as an “anti”, well…
I am pro 2nd Amendment, but I disagreed as to it’s interpretation re the first half of it until the Supreme Court weighed in on the matter, then accepted the ruling. I grew up in Northern Idaho, have owned both pistol and rifle ,and have gone hunting.
I have used the term “Church of the Holy Bangstick” in referring to those who get violently upset when others ask questions, and those that stockpiled weapons and ammo when they thought that Obama’s Gestapo was going to go door to door the day after the election to take their guns away.
ExTank, you said
Are there any mildly anti-gun posters on this board you would be willing to discuss questions of this sort with, since apparently my image has been tarnished in your eyes? I’d be willing to sit the conversation out if you feel that my asking such questions instead of someone else somehow poisons the well beyond all hope.