# Why do gunowners own guns only because "they have the right to"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2012, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-gunowners-own-guns-only-because-they-have-the-right-to/613825 "2012-02-24T11:04:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 151
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-gunowners-own-guns-only-because-they-have-the-right-to/613825/151 "2012-02-25T06:52:14Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > When the question is asked non-confrontationally, we freely give those answers. When is the question ask in that manner? Rarely, especially here, where gun threads usually devolve very quickly without moderator action (like this one). > > That said, there are several gun threads in IMHO right now that have stayed on topic without the usual hijacks. I find that refreshing. 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 > [@](#): > > The well is poisoned. There is nothing to discuss or debate with them. 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-gunowners-own-guns-only-because-they-have-the-right-to/613825)._