First off, Peg, I made no assumptions about you or your background with regard to guns. But obviously you are so touchy about being disagreed with that you react like so many that I have seen over the years, that immediately assume that someone makes those assumptions on the basis of bias. To put it very bluntly, you are wrong. Secondly, I find it curious that you immediately slip into the "silly little female head" line of crap. Peg, you are the one guilty of sexism, not me. I don't know about what you may have done worthwhile with your life, but let me tell you about mine. I have spent most of it combatting sexism, primarily against females. Not talking about it with the tone you used, but in the trenches fighting it in all its forms. In the workplace, the community at large.......everywhere. My works are demonstrable, and they will keep up until I quit drawing air. It was not me that introduced this into the discussion, but you. My 3 daughters have been raised to not tolerate sexist discrimination and actions, in fact to seek it out do battle against it. You make my point about the type of sanctimonious and half baked, knee jerk response better than I ever could. Do us all a favor and stick to the subject at hand, and the facts.

With the little bit of logic you did manage to bring to bear, let me say this. If you go back and read my post you will see that I broke out the arguments into two separate areas. I happen to agree that the constitutional argument is the weakest of the two. And I thought I was very clear about the central question that I have. And that you and others who put forth this line of logic almost universally refuse to answer, and instead fall back into spouting sanctimonious, half truths like "Guns don't kill, schoolkids with guns kill". It is simple. Why should I have to give up a possession of mine, that I have used responsibly all my life, that the data shows is not responsible for the problem, that getting rid of will likely increase the violent crime? Why? Why should I have to give up a right, that I currently have, if it won't produce any benefit except to make out of touch people feel more comfortable with their false logic?

Mick