Blackhawk73: I appreciate your sympathy. Yeah, sometimes I feel like Carmen Electra on a gay cruise. Nobody's interested in what I'm interested in.
But there are gun owners 'round here. But we gotta be like secret agents. Sad but true. As you probably know, all of my pistols, (not that I have that many) are registered with the state. Every time I want to buy or sell one, have to submit "amendment" forms, wait 6-10 weeks. Then you have to pick it up in person at the county clerk's office. And this prevents. . . what? For the life of me I can't see how anybody can even fantasize how regristration will prevent a crime with a registered gun. I can see the arguement that it makes tracking the gun AFTER the crime. But,-- uh, so what? What exactly does that do? I think it just is another extension of the type of thinking that imbues an object with inherently evil properties. The tracing of the guns path---the evil thing as it makes its insidious way to the eventual tragic incident.
I figured out a good way to keep from having anybody take the seat next to me on the train to NYC: Read a copy of SOF, Amerian Rifleman, etc. They glance down, then----whoosh! Off they go down the aisle! "Crazy man reading a magazine with pictures of guns! Aaahhrrrghh!" I smile to myself, and think--"beat it ya Volvo driving, NY Times reading, over-educated, pay-someone-else-to-love-my-kids(nanny) employing. . . . PERSON!"
Oh! the humanity! But, there are some good things and people here. Just buried under a ton of smug, self-satisfied, entrenched liberal thinking (see above mini-rant). But that John Stossel show that other night was a ray of hope--shows there are other viewpoints making their way to the surface.