Martin, I didn't smoke dope even in the early 70's, when everyone else I knew did. I didn't smoke cigarettes either. Yuck.

I was also more socially radical than most of them (cause most of them were just doing it to be cool, whereas I was doing it out of true belief). I am still more radical than most of them.

I also believe in God...way, way more than I believe in most things, in fact. I love God. I honor God. But I am no fundamentalist...I shudder when I think of the fundamentalists of any organized religion.

And I am not opposed on principle to people owning guns. I've known plenty of totally responsible and harmless people who owned guns, so why would I be opposed to it?

A stereotype is just something people make up in their own minds, and they use it to clothe their raging fears and hatreds. Then they go around trying to dress other people up in the false clothing they made for them. (And we probably all do it at times, so it would be best to watch one's own thoughts carefully so as to weed out this nasty tendency, wouldn't it?)