Yet no one is shooting each other. In fact, I have not yet heard of one of us even raising a gun towards another. If all the Gun Control Nuts (GCN’s) are right them we should all be dead by now. I mean, we aren’t special really. We come from cities, farms, suburbs, and rural areas. Many of us have been arrested at one point or another. So why aren’t we killing one another? I am confused.
...but the guns have yet to make us kill each other
I do think you are a bit confused. GCNs don't claim that everyone with guns or around guns will be killed, though they do claim increased risk of injury or death for the general population around guns. While GCNs are paranoid about the presence of firearms, I can't recall any actually arguing that guns make you kill people. Their concern is that presence or ease of access makes situationally incorrect spontaneous lethal force far too easy than if guns were not present. If people didn't have guns, then they would not have NDs either. Of course, these arguments are not valid.
Turns out, you all really are special. You are professional warriors and gun handlers.
Maybe you could make the argument that we have bigger issues to deal with and that keeps us from going nuts. Though, you could argue the opposite too. Our training? Not likely since I got better training before I joined than since.
While you may have received better training before going into the military, I am sure that you must realize that many of your fellow soldiers never touched a gun before going into the military. Of those that had, most probably had nothing more than a basic hunter safety course and very few had professional training. The vast majority of the civilian population has no formal gun training. Add to that the issue that gun owning civilians not only don't get training, but most don't shoot on any regular basis. They don't maintain skills proficiency.
You have been trained and are a disciplined gun handler. GCNs don't perceive the general population in such a manner.
Maybe it is the supervision we get? Hate to let you all know, but we are often left to our own devices.
While you may not be supervised all the time by superiors, you are supervised by one another as Zombiphobia pointed out...
I'd like to ad one small thing here... I HAVE had a fellow service member point his rifle at me, even stick it into my stomach to taunt me after I told him to watch his muzzle. His argument was that "it's not even loaded"(we were turning them into the armory)... well, a short fight ensued.. I won. He made threats and gave lots of dirty looks but never spoke directly to me again.
Such supervision isn't the case for the vast majority of the civilian population.
The only deterrent I can think of is that using a weapon on anyone out here risks them returning the favor?
Ah, that would be the Polite Society theory.
So where is any justification for the paranoia that grips the GCN’s? I might be blind and missing something.
Maybe so. Paranoia does not require justification or empirical backing. It can exist based solely on beliefs or perceptions.
As has been pointed out, your circumstances are not the concern of GCNs. Cops and the military are those that are supposed to have guns.
