Old dude, if you're looking for someone to do the pro-gun/anti-gun dance with, please look elsewhere. I own seven guns myself and have no problem with law-abiding and reasonably sane people owning as many hunting or target guns as they wish. I choose to draw the line at semi-automatic weapons which can be converted to fully-automatic and/or equipped with high-capacity magazines and which serve no purpose other than to kill human beings. The point of my post was this: When shootings like this have occurred in the past, the rabid pro-gun faction has been relatively immune. They weren't personally injured. The victims were not among their number. It happened to "them" (gays, blacks, religious minorities) not "us" (straight white Christians). Well, that asshole was shooting at a bunch of mostly white, Christian, 2nd Amendment supporters. He was shooting at "us", not "them". That is bound to have some effect on how the conversation about the shooting goes.
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