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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Decoligny" data-source="post: 4011934" data-attributes="member: 41077">The key word is potential.Having the ability to take an action makes that action a potential action.If you have a gun, you have the potential of being a mass shooter, just as having a ***** gives you the potential to be a rapist.If I happen to be pissed off at a situation, and I loudly verbally express my displeasure, let’s say at the lack of customer service at a particular retailer, and someone “thinks” because I own a gun that I might snap and kill everyone working there, in no way directly relates to the likelihood of me actually taking such action.I happen to vent frustrations that way and then it’s over.  Steam vented, pressure gone.Because my language get colorful, doesn’t make me a threat, although like every single person in the world, I have the potential to commit violence.Who is the decision maker in the stripping away of my God given RIGHT to defend myself?</blockquote>