Think this through before dismissing it Ask yourself what police response times are where you live, and how police are likely to approach you. Contrast with someone living in a very different situation than your own.

@voltronic

Do Liberals want to ban all weapons? News to me.

Responsible, uncrazy and unviolent people who've taken safety classes in the use and fire of arms should be able to own weapons. That's my take on it.

That's a tower so ivory it's a straw man and the propagation of a lame "Liberal" stereotype.

@voltronic

(With all due respect Volty!! ;-) )

@TheAbbotTrithemius
Well, I'm a Liberal and I don't want to ban firearms. It wasn't a sweeping generalization, but it is true that the majority of gun restrictions either proposed or enacted come from liberal politicians. It's also true that the cat majority of those policies that get enacted to little or nothing to reduce gun violence.

@voltronic

It's a massive dilemma with too much charged language for there to be solutions to the issue, which I think there are very practical ones that probably would be acceptable to both sides, but the 2nd Amendment isn't just about guns anymore. It's a cultural battle cry and an excuse for people like the guy you quoted to demonize anyone with half a brain as ivory tower liberals, which is pathetic and laughable, yet it will be taken as an accepted truth by those who need to hate.