How many friendships have you had to end

[Decoy of Fenris]

31. It's not that we're "meaner", Flibbity, we're just tired of having to fight on two fronts.

You think the RKBA side is all gung-ho for slaughtering schoolkids? Hell no, we want it to end just as much as anyone else, if not moreso. The problem we're faced with is the staggeringly ignorant and quite frankly offensive "Gun Control" side mucking everything up every damned time. We've been on the frontlines before and after every school shooting and all in between them, trying to get no-nonsense, no-frills but damned effective legislation passed, and every time we think we're making progress, the Gun Control fringe steps in and starts screaming "BAN TEH GUNZ! ALL OF DEM! BAN BAN BAN!" Boom. Instant political stonewall, from our own goddamned side, people who are supposed to be working with us. "Gun Control" has sold more firearms than the NRA could ever dream of, mostly due to their own blatant incompetence and willful ignorance.

It's asinine, and to be honest, some of us are just tired. We've been fighting for so long, trying to get actual laws and regulations passed. The Control side thinks they're the only ones who've lost people to gun violence, that they have some moral high ground; they think us RKBA folks haven't felt loss. We've had our own casualties, watched our friends blow their brains out, losing our own to gun violence, had our schools locked down in firearm drills, watched our loved ones die because they couldn't protect themselves. We've got our scars, too. We're fighting the right wing and the batshit lunatic fringe of the left wing at the same time, and we're -tired-.

So yeah, some of us may get a bit snippy. Some of us have been fighting a decades-long war against what you're just now saying "enough is enough" over. I've been fighting this battle for twenty years now. Sorry for that.