The important thing right now is that we not offend the nation's gun apologists

[Squinch]

2. Most of our resident "responsible gun owners" seem clearly to feel as if they are the real victims

of these slaughters, because their hobby is being threatened.

I've posted this before, and I'll repost it here. It's all the stupid arguments the gun nuts pull out of their asses every time there is a massacre (which now means daily.) Maybe if we just list their gripes, they'll go away and let the grown-ups have a real conversation about this.

So here are all of the arguments the "responsible gun owners" will make:

"You are saying that all gun owners are murderers. That hurts my feelings."

"What about the millions who use guns to get their food? Huh? What about those millions? You want them to starve?"

"You might as well give up right now, because you are too insignificant to have an impact on gun laws."

"We need to completely reform the mental health system before we do anything about guns."

"It's not a clip, it's a magazine. Discussion closed."

"It's not a magazine, it's a clip. Discussion closed."

"Chicago has tough gun laws, and they have a lot of gun deaths, so tough gun laws won't work"

"All those gun statistics are irrelevant because they include/don't include suicides."

"All you people who don't like to see guys with semi automatic guns in JC Penney are just hysterical and don't get it. It's no big deal."

"If you take guns out of the hands of law abiding people, the only people who will be left with guns are the criminals."

"A guy in Podunk stopped a crime with his gun. See? Guns work!"

"You don't know what a Myerson Double Triple Ammo Latch is, therefore you have no right to be having a discussion about guns"

And thanks to zappaman for adding: "Cars kill more people per year. Should we ban cars?"

And thanks to Major Hogwash for adding: ""I've never killed anybody, but I fantasize about someone breaking into my house every night."