<i>macho culture that drives gun nuttery</i><p>I was with you until here.  Sorry, but what you call &quot;gun nuttery&quot; is very likely what I call a simple, principled belief that private individuals have a right to be armed, and a recognition that there will be &quot;gear heads&quot; around any hobby.  Guitar players tend to own lots of guitars, shooting enthusiasts own lots of guns.  Owning lots of guns and defending the 2A doesn&#x27;t make somebody a &quot;nutter&quot; nor does it make them any more prone to committing violent crime.<p><i>&#x27;stand-your-ground&#x27;</i><p>What exactly is your problem with &quot;stand your ground&quot; laws?<p><i>&#x27;fuck-tha-police&#x27; sentiments</i><p>Sorry, but as long as police are &quot;men with guns&quot; using violence to enforce unjust laws, and <i>especially</i> as long as many of their numbers act like schoolyard bullies who never grew up, I&#x27;m going to remain firmly in the &quot;fuck the police&quot; camp.<p><i>for the most part, the police aren&#x27;t broken.</i><p>I&#x27;m calling bullshit on this.  Haven&#x27;t we seen enough videos of cops abusing &#x2F; beating &#x2F; killing people who were clearly <i>not</i> posing any aggressive threat (including people who were already handcuffed and pinned to the ground) to realize that this is not true?  Obviously not all cops are &quot;bad&quot; but to ignore the systemic problems in policing in America today is like sticking your head in the sand and pretending there&#x27;s no problem because you can&#x27;t see it.<p><i>Let&#x27;s blame the politicians who criminalize everything</i><p>Now this we can agree on.