Boots,

A complex one you are Boots.  On one hand you earlier wrote, "But I am not sure why you would be 'easy prey' for 'thieves and lowlifes'. Just how much trouble have you experienced from these people? I am in my sixties and have never experienced any such trouble."  Okay, at face value this means you neither now nor have ever had to fear or worry about being a crime victim.  Thus you anticipate never needing to defend yourself now or ever.  Okay, got that.

Now you write, "I am against people going out and shooting innocents such as what happened at that preschool and movie theater. There is far too much bloodshed in America which needs to end."  Okay, so you're saying that elsewhere in America people other than you are being victimized by crime.  Okay, I got that too.

But does it not give you pause that such tragedies as occurred in the preschool (actually Sandy Hook Elementary) and movie theater (Century 16; Aurora, CO) were finally ended by the appearance of men with guns?