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Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

Genuine question: Who are families who are proud to have guns protecting themselves *from*? Please explain this to me. Who is the biggest threat in their minds? I suspect there is a strong correlation between this zeal for bearing arms and a specific threat. I want to know.

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my family has gotten serious death threats and has gotten swatted. I have stalkers. Both my family and I are proud to own guns.

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I support the Second Amendment and don't blame you for having a gun but this somehow sends the wrong message in a political campaign.

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How is having guns going to help if you get swatted? Seems to be likely to make a bad situation worse.

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That sounds reasonable. Since I can’t recall you ever talking about or flashing guns or carrying on endlessly about the 2A — I would presume you are not a gun fetishist.