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Moneyguy,

I'm sure people can become weirdly obsessed with objects, be they guns, barbie dolls, magazines, or cars.

However, an obsession with something like firearms is not neccessarily a cause or proximate cause of violence. You can be obsessed with Porsches, and own dozens, but that doesn't make you drive dangerously, now does it?

Also the relationship of firearms ownership to a belief in the American flavor of freedom is often associated with this so called obsession or love affair with guns.

I own over a dozen firearms. I believe in freedom, I believe I have the freedom to own arms with which I can defend myself, my home, my family, my property, and if need be, my state and my nation. I would defend that right, and I would go against anyone who wants to deprive me of that right.

That doesn't make me obsessed with firearms.

Heck, I haven't bought one in over a year now. I haven't fired one since October, and before then, probably over a year. The pistol in my night stand is probably covered with a thin layer of dust.

Obsessed? Not hardly. There's no mental affliction associated with owning firearms and believing in the freedom I've described above.

It's just easier for feebleminded blissninnies to associate something they don't like or agree with as some sort of mental defect.

Anyway...