It's the topic of conversation prior to the beginning of meetings, after the meetings are over, and at some point during nearly every lunch conversation. They were remarkably quiet yesterday however. I like golf, but in my experience even the most rabid golfer doesn't assume that everyone else wants to talk about golf all the time. Did I mention they're all republicans?

1) 1/3 General insecurities that are somehow fulfilled by guns in the way a binky calms an infant
2) They are toys/collectables
3) The perverse right wing brainwashing has ginned up people who fall for it that gun ownership makes you less elite, it is primary to the culture war that the simpletons get sucked in to

The NRA is the single most dangerous organization in the United States, in my opinion.

When the second amendment was written a "weapon of mass destruction" was a 10 lb. cannon. Not exactly something you could carry around with you. Our forefathers had no idea how far weapons technology would progress, and if they had they sure as hell would have regulated them! Our government's unwillingness to reign in gun manufacturers and gun "enthusiasts" desire for more powerful and deadly weapons is beyond contempt. This unwillingness can be laid at one organization's doorstep: The NRA.

Is the line that needs to be on every TV, newspaper, radio, and website.

Some of the shoots (in which the competitors take aim at people dressed in zombie costumes and shoot paintballs at them) are billed as "family-friendly" events.

Guns can be fun. I like shooting occasionally. It's can be an enjoyable pastime, however.. full-auto? Mil-spec assault rifles? These aren't little 5 round .22's, or even a hunting rifle. These aren't shotguns for deer hunting.
Gun nuts often like to say, "well what about cars? cars kill people, you gonna outlaw cars"?
I dunno. How long you think you can drive a full-on friggin race car in public before you're stopped by law enforcement? What about military stuff like tanks, is that allowed? You see many cars done up like the Road Warrior when you go to the drive thru? Are regular citizens allowed to drive a police car- even if the badging was removed? Go try to buy one if you think you can- and NOT some Govt surplus junker, either, the full-on pursuit package and everything. You see many civilian-owned military aircraft being flown lately, except old stuff like bi-planes or stuff at airshows?

but it is taking Congress way to long to send me my Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

Yeah, I know they don't exactly fit the profile but I'd like to see it happen anyway.