re: #1 Romantic Heretic

The dozens of deaths every day from firearms is performed by one of the religion’s holy icons. Using a firearm is a form of communion with America. It’s something that displays the user’s faith and maintains America’s holiness.

Like the Aztec’s religion regular infusions of blood are required to keep the universe running.

My $0.02.

I don’t know anyone who takes things that lightly. I’d also point out that these terrorists did have guns, and they used them to kill a cop.

What I think is that Islamist terrorist trigger a reaction that is divisive, but much less so than a shocking mass shooting by suicidal nut. Liberals and Conservatives disagree on most things, but they both agree that the type of society that Islamists want to impose on the world is not one in which they want to live. A man from Boston, Mass and a man from Birmingham, AL may define “freedom” differently in a number of ways, but it remains something they both value and something they both know Radical Islam seeks to destroy.