My first thought on reading the original post -- even before I read the material under the cut tag -- was, "In this country, I don't have to show that I 'need' a particular weapon* -- if it's legal at all and my record is clean, I have a right to possess it." And I'm a Berkeley liberal who'll probably never own a gun. Not all of us are screaming nellies.
unixronin gets credit for some of that attitude, of course.
*Not counting the concealed-carry laws some places have.
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*Not counting the concealed-carry laws some places have.