Opinion -vs- Authority
We as the shooting community need to step out of the box we put overselves in and try to understand that others are entitled to their beliefs as much as we are entitled to ours.
Believe what you like. Have any opinion you like.
I have some opinions I'm pretty sure you'd think are nuts. That's fine. We won't be discussing those.
However, if I discovered one day that, because of your
opinion, you were attempting to exert some kind of coercive authority over the exercise of my freedoms, I would seriously be in your face.
Having an opinion does not entitle one to enforce that point of view or its constraints on others.
You wanna hate my guns? Not much I can do about that. You are certainly entitled to any delusions, phobias, or obsessions that you feel are necessary to living your life. You are not entitled to visit them on me and my life.
A person who is rabidly irrational about weapons can have all the reasons he wants for his opinions and beliefs, but expecting me to accept or endorse or accept as valid in any degree the personal motivations that drive that irrationality is simply a non-starter.
In fact, given the
prima facie irrationality of anti-gun attitudes and arguments, why on
earth would I expend any effort at all attempting to
understand the fundamentally flawed beliefs that drive them?