Well G-Freemen, I happen to agree. Everything for now is smoothed over. November 30th I am a full flegded member of the gun owning community, and I still get to go to Thanksgiving.
Want to know the strangest thing ? My dad is a jeweler with a very basic security system in his shop. All the doors are glass and are not barred. 6 months ago, one of the other jewelry shops in his building, two doors down was robbed. The owner sustained a shotgun blast to the leg, and his wife was shot with a 9 mm three times in the arm and head. Fortunately they both lived, granted, they're still recovering. This is NOT the first time a robbery has occured in his building, it actually happens with some frequency.
This doesn't deter my father from his pacifist philosophy, nevertheless, when he told me a gun was the last thing I needed, or for that matter, just about anybody he knows, I cited the above said example. I guess he has a short memory, and at that point our conversation ceased.
I respect my father's decision to not own a gun, I just hope, God forbid he never needs one.