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Richie Bittner's avatar

Fully one half of our electorate is addicted to a story of America as a dystopian state. To hear it told, we are in the midst of rampaging gangs of migrants out to breed white folks out of existence all the while coming for your guns and to shutter your churches. Obama said it best, "If I listened to Fox news I wouldn't like me either". So therein lies at least part of the blame. I listen to right wing talk once a week or so and I am astounded by the picture painted of our current moment. And that portrait of us is spoon fed to an audience that is perhaps not up to the task of seeing it for what it is, and these incidents are results of that. So this guy might actually feel like it's a roving gang of woke socialists is in his driveway, and he might actually fear for his safety and that of his wife. I doubt it, but it might have something to do with this all. Or just as likely, he's a belligerent jerk standing his ground against some perceived danger that does not exist. Why I would ask is someone like he armed? The Second amendment mentions defense of the state, not of one's self, and if we allow guns to be owned by all comers, then this is what we get. It breaks my heart that a young woman has lost her life to this, and her fellow passengers marred for life. This is the price of our out of control gun laws.

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Catherine's avatar

I recently went to lunch with 3 old friends. I was the only one at the table who did not own a gun or feel the fear of the "crime here on the streets in Glens Falls". One of my friends said she no longer carries a purse or wears any jewelry. The other keeps a gun near the bedside in a locked box that opens using a fingerprint. I sat there dumbfounded while my opened purse was on the back of my chair and admiring my wedding diamond. I told them I felt sad that they have so much fear and they said they weren't fearful, just prepared. Well, let me just say, I felt a little fearful while sitting with these people who I used to know.

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