re: #80 Talking Point Detective

I find it hard to believe that there’s any possible explanation for that behavior other than fetishism - or just tribalistic behavior that for fairly random reasons gets focused on guns.

I might disagree with reasonable people on issues related to the 2nd amendment - such as interpretation of “a well-regulated miliia” - but parading around town with automatic weapons, let alone multiple fucking automatic weapons, is simply a sign that someone is imbalanced. I’m not usually that categorical about issues, but I honestly don’t see any other legit explanations.

I have a girlfriend who is only scared of guns that look like military guns. I have to wonder how many people would be more comfortable if the guns these people were carrying had nice wood grain stocks and looked like an English Gentlemen’s Rifle. If they were wearing what we think of as traditional hunting garb and not camo.

No matter how much education she get’s my girlfriend still has a knee jerk fear reaction to a military looking rifle—even tho she knows intellectually it is still a basic rifle.