Countering Gun Rights Haters on the Street and in the Press

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Guilty until proven innocent?

Gun Control laws seem to all be based on an automatic presumption of guilt.

That is the way laws are that focus on restricting freedom instead of punishing the guilty. The general U.S. population may not support the ban of guns but the government in general and anti-gun types in the private sector do.

 

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Projection

(If I have the term wrong, please correct me)

People who don't like guns / hate guns / think that guns are a reason for people's actions are often doing what some call "projection". They know that they don't know guns, and would be dangerous with them, or they know that they could not trust themselves with guns, and project that onto everyone else, in their minds.

Some of them believe that if they had a gun, they would not be able to resist its "siren song" calling them to commit violence with it. And since they could not, then no one else could, either. Therefore, the only safe thing is to keep guns out of everyone's hands.

They also seem to believe that there is some kind of magical immunity to the gun's incitement to commit violence if you wear a police uniform, military uniform, or work as private security. Apparently those occupations make one immune from projection (in their minds) as well.

 

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People who don't like guns / hate guns / think that guns are a reason for people's actions are often doing what some call "projection". They know that they don't know guns, and would be dangerous with them, or they know that they could not trust themselves with guns, and project that onto everyone else, in their minds.

Dang! This is some spot-on psycho-analysis. You're 100% right. Take a person like that our for a few drinks to loosen their tongues and you'll usually find a head full of snakes.