Are we tilting at windmills re: national gun laws?

[Hekate]

78. "You"? You are holding me responsible for the mass insanity of this nation? Do you personally want

...to possess military-style weaponry for home use? Expecting an invasion from some place? Belong to the National Guard? (If I understand the situation correctly, the State National Guards all keep their weaponry in armories, as do the various military services, not in homes.)

Just want to know where you're coming from, because it's not entirely clear.

As for California, where you correctly surmise I live, I know various folks who possess firearms, some of them related to me. My sister in law taught her sons to hunt, which I only found out when I saw the bloody haunch of a deer in her freezer. Well, maybe less than a haunch, and it was well-wrapped, but you could definitely see where it had leaked. You see, she didn't boast about it or even find it to be a topic of conversation. My next-door neighbor apparently has one or possibly more, which he mentioned when we had a rash of neighborhood burglaries. All I said to him was, "There's a time and place for everything, John." My brother has a sideline dealing in cut gems, and his peers in the trade were being stalked and robbed, so in addition to his other precautions he got a gun to carry on his travels, which he keeps out of reach of his 3 kids in a safe.

I could go on. I'm not trying to disarm everyone in the country. But I have known only one person who boasted about having a personal arsenal, or found it necessary to insert his fascination into ordinary conversation. He told me that if the government were to come looking to seize his guns he would bury them 6 feet deep in his back yard. All I said was "Good place for them."

Maybe I just look like someone who's not interested and so people don't tell me. Who knows?

Just a few last questions: Did the Democratic Party's platform and Hillary Clinton's statements tick you off sufficiently that you didn't vote for her? Do you think there's enough in your cohort to swing an election? Do you listen to Wayne LaPierre?