The problem is: widespread firearms ownership is demonstrably, empirically, a terrible solution to the problem of personal protection.
Citation required. And I don't mean some bullshit link to a blog.
Do you somehow find yourself aggrieved by not being able to do what you want in your bedroom? Are you really so oppressed just because you can't admit in public what you do with other consenting adults (homosexual relationships)? Is it ruining your fabulous look or something? Or are you just looking for thing to kvetch about? I should think there's very little call for walking around with a flamboyant, gay, air.
Basically, what you just said was "I don't think you should have the right to do things that make me uncomfortable" and that's very immature of you. It seems that you don't actually care about real freedom. You want to live in a nanny state where the mob pounces on anything and anyone that falls short of the pravda du jour. Little do dunces and fools like you suspect that pravda is subject to change. It suits you for now, but it's not hard to imaging it turning really ugly very quickly.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. - Martin Niemöller
What is more free than being able to defend oneself (against bullies, rapists, thieves, and/or government thugs)? This should sum things up.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
