My personal views not withstanding, I agree that this thread is probably (eventually) going nowhere "good". I've learned that you can't really convince others to agree with you on many things, this is one of them. Short of an armed individual saving the life of someone who is against guns (and possibly not even then), not much is going to change anyones mind on the subject. And, equally, every "wacko" who does something bad with a firearm can be used as an example of the inherent evil of them and the reasons to regulate, ban, etc. So, it isn't likely that anyone is going to swith sides on this one.
I don't yet see any reason to lock it and therefore will leave it open and ask everyone to "play nice". It makes my life (and yours) much easier when I don't have to clean up messes spawned from arguements in threads. So, with that said, feel free to discuss (in a civil fashion) or ignore this thread all together.
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