"So put YOUR broad brush away and be the better man for calling it correctly."

Well, you might be right, but then we're all guilty of that occasionally. We're never going to agree on this but in all honesty this sort of thing puts me off posting here big style. I love the rough and tumble of a good debate, and in my opinion it's good to get a bit of international dialogue going - you never know what you might learn, but the sort of aggression and lack of feeling shown in Riginslinger's statement is wearying at best, deeply insulting at worst - not to me, but to people who have suffered more than enough.

For the record, I've got no problems with people keeping guns for hunting but that's it. I don't like big knives, RPG's, Ricin either, and if they were to disappear off the streets too then that wouldn't be a bad thing. I don't care for the mindset that turns a person's very existence into an extended siege against everyone else in society; this strikes me a being a dangerous sort of alienation, a sort of dehumanising of everyone else, and this leads to a fragmented and insecure community. I strongly believe most people aren't in favour of carrying guns - if the only society we are capable of creating is one where we have to point a weapon at each other every time we disagree then we are truly fucked. But then perhaps we are anyway.