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i really hope these cowboy rulings don't come to new york.

Well, it's about time. Good job Illinois!

To anyone that hopes freedom is curtailed for themselves, so do I. If you reject a right, you don't desrve it.

Awesome news, about time these librul pinkos get taken down along with their unconstitutional anti-gun gun laws.

I really don't understand why guns are so important to you guys. I'm not talking about the rights and wrongs of the law or whatever, just why is such a huge part of Americans collective consciousness ? People in the UK just don't think about guns, we hear about them on the news infrequently and that is about it, even in high crime areas like I live in, it's still just not something that enters my daily thoughts.

What I want to understand is why there seems to be this need for for a gun. When I think of a gun I just think, what the f**k would I want that for ? What would I do with it ? If my life ever changed so much that I had a real need for a gun to make me feel safer, I'd change my life before getting a gun. I realise that some people could claim they need guns because they live in high crime areas, but people here live in high crime areas (me) and still don't need a gun. Are people in the US using their constitutionally protected guns to defend themselves from crime ? Does that happen a lot ?

It just seems to me that there are millions of gun owners in the US who have never actually used their gun in anything that would resemble a life or death situation and that this obsession with firearms and the ability to own them seems a bit unwarranted... almost fetishism.

This is not meant to insult, or flamebait, it's just a sincere "I don't get it" post.

americans are pretty paranoid, whether they're gun owners or not. the gun owners just take measures to "Secure" themselves by buying guns. at least most people do it for that reason. there are some absolute whackjobs that think if the government wants to put them in a detainment camp they can go red dawn on everyone and win.