@oralloy,
There is no conceivable wat==y rhe Tgiving shootings were self-defense. None. They were murder, and murder is not a civil librrty., so your cavil is pure nonsense. The problem, which you refuse to recognize is that guns while they may be used for self defense, tho usually that's not what they are used for, but are also extremely good at commiting murder, and that is in fact what they are far too often used for. You seem to hsave no interest in cutting down the body count, and that's why you failin hyour arguments, which are wildly immoral, as are those of the thugs at the NRA> q.e.d.