Mark - I doubt if there's any duifferences which would make yioui shoot me, or make me refuse a drink. "Do you really think I need an eye or a sanity test? " I wasn't really thinking about you. Possibly Charlton Heston...
More to the point, I'm thinking people like Hamilton, in Scotland who killed all those school children in Dunblane, and had a proper legal licence and was a member of gun clubs and all.
There are crazy people around, and there are people with bad eyesight - and my impression (which may be wrong), and even if you think guns should stay legal, that shouldn't apply to people like that. I would have thought that a National Rifle Organisation would be pushing for rigorous gun control rather than opposing it.
As I said in my previous post, it's clear that a sufficient number of Americans believe that the freedom to own guns is important to stop the one who disagree with them from banning them - but that should go with a recognition that there is a price to be paid for it, rather than denying that there is such a price.
Nobody would claim that cars don't kill thousands of people who otherwise would live out their lives; it is evidently seen by most people as worth the human cost. But supporters of guns don't seem to be willing to bite the bullet and say that.