...one must also soberly note that whatever misbehavior our community engages in can indeed come to haunt us.
I could recite "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and the leftist extremists would find it threatening, then conclude law-abiding American citizens will be safe only when completely disarmed.
LOL to that.
But then I consider what your average Joe & Jane Normal "reasonable" people would think.
They'd not be threatened by you reciting Mary Had a Lamb ShishKebab following her around.
But when presented with this lady's central proposition, well...that's hard to call.
This woman follows a cluster of beliefs that is accepted by many folks who consider themselves "centrists" on the issue:
The premise is that sometimes, people who had heretofore been "good", do bad things, without notice or warning. Because the person who had snapped off and done something heinous could be ANYONE, it is therefore reasonable to suspect and treat EVERYONE as a murderer in waiting.
It's a chain of ill founded reasoning that a lot of people just can't see through.
Tossing the "boo hoo! The insensitive gun freaks were mean to me" play into the mix is the icing on the cake for her, and the sad bit is that segments of our own community handed her the ammo.
Thing is, that's unnavoidable. We scour the public utterances of our opponents for ammo, which they readily supply.
I'm just trying to remind us that it's a two edged sword.
