Gun Ownership - are you for or against it and why?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I don't feel a dissonance in my mind about it, but would gladly listen at your knee as to why you feel there is one in America.

You ARE joking.

That's my perception,and is obvious to me,beginning with the corkscrew logic of the NRA. Eg "Guns don't kill people---" and a bloody minded insistence in misinterpreting the meaning of the US constitution about the right to bear arms.IE an armed citizen militia,which would have been appropriate in the eighteenth century,but is not today. Well that's according to the way I read it in the hard copy I have of the US constitution. I'm aware the interpretation is controversial, even among constitutional lawyers.

But hey, I'm an outsider,what do I know,it's only my opinion. I truly could not care less how many Americans blow each others heads of while insisting on their 'rights.'

A European writer observed a few years ago is that there is a the difference between American style democracy and most of the rest of the world; The US emphasises the rights of the individual,the rest of us emphasis equality.

For reasons passing all understanding, Americans refuse to equate gun crimes with guns" (Martin Sheen in " The American President")

That's all I have to say on this topic.I'm afraid I'll become the first atheist to have a fatwa put on his arse by other atheists.