Originally Posted by Teacher49

I sure do [feel hostility] toward those who try to make us believe they are essential in such numbers or that they are beating back a real, present threat. I accept them the way I accept police at ballgames and in high schools: as a necessity and with gratitude but no great belief that they will be needed very often at all. And when people who carry guns and who are willing to infringe on my rights citing mysterious unspeakable knowledge start to loom so large in my everyday life, my concerns for democracy and my bullsh*t detectors both go into over drive.