Well, I've just come out of a luke-warm, if not heated, debate about gun rights, gun-ownership and self-defence and gun ownership and I'm seething.
I'm not expecting any arguments in favour, I'm just venting to people who will understand my frustration.
The attitudes that exist relating to firearms beggar belief. So too do some of the arguments that mutate before your very ears in order to try to counter your own points of view.
"Owning a gun is just to kill..." Uhhh, no it it flipping well isn't: it's just about stopping someone from hurting you and yours, and it they walk away all the better.
"You can just walk into a shop and buy guns in the US.": Uhhh, no you can't (well.... not everywhere....
) There's NICS and FFLs.
"There are nutters who shoot people, so no one should be allowed to have guns": So, what? Because of a minuscule % of nutters who ignore the law anyway, I shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun to protect my family from said nutters?!
Ye gads, it winds me up!!!
I've got jaw-ache from clenching!!! (or perhaps it's from all those words being shoe-horned into my mouth...)
OK, the cathartic venting has made me feel better, so...
Rant over....