Big Stick, I agree that guns are over-glorified in the USA, and always have been. I agree that the USA has an overly gun-oriented culture and that that has caused harm. I have repeatedly complained about the awful "shooter" games that are sold to kids by video game companies, and I would be in favor of banning those, because they creat a sick mindset in people. However, I do not agree with penalizing all legal and responsible gun owners in a nation for the actions of a few unstable people in that nation.

And I don't know what joke you are referring to that you say I made...?

You know, we have ended up talking about a lot of different things on this thread as it went along. That happens in a conversation involving many different people. If I made a joke somewhere in the midst of all that...it does NOT indicate that I think there is anything funny about what happened at the Amish school.

So don't get too carried away, okay? I know it feels just great to whip yourself up into a righteous fury at someone else, but you may be just missing the point in so doing. I am not the dark and dreadful figure of your fantasy about me. I object to extreme kneejerk prejudice on BOTH sides of the gun debate, not just on one side of it. I take a middle path.

And by the way....I don't own a gun. I had a pellet gun and a BB gun when I was a kid, but that's as far as I ever went with it.

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Big Stick's messages were deleted. They were just weird.
-Joe Offer-