Career criminals know how to use guns better than most gun owners who strut around
proclaiming their "rights". It's rare for a gun-owner to have a shoot-out with a career criminal and win. The self-protection myth for gun ownership is a ruse.

The NRA functions as an organization that is in denial about gun usage. Their role is
not public safety but politicization of gun-ownership which is a money-making operation.

Anyone who brags about their ability to use weapons is either a criminal or an idiot.
There are those in the military who do become accomplished in the use of weapons
and some of them return to join the ranks of career criminals.

Anyone who thinks that shoot-outs accomplish anything useful is neither a liberal or
a progressive.