Raging Against Self-Defense: Anti-gunners react to Do Not Patronize list news...

As news of OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed list was reported across the state and even across the nation (including USA TODAY) this week, we have received an increasing amount of emails from people who seem to need a few anger-management classes.

The following person didn't have the courage to leave his real name or email address:

How pathetic are you people? Let me guess- you are so bitter about being such a fat waste of a life, that you have to hide behind a gun! Do you really have nothing better to do? Don't you have jobs? Families? You really spend this much time and money fighting so you can carry a gun into Arby's? If someone wants to steal your Beef'n'Cheddar, are you going to shoot them? Are you going to accidently shoot me in the process as I'm trying to enjoy my Jamocha shake? You are so pathetic that you have to carry a gun into a Mall or an Amusement park. I can't even imagine how weak minded you have to be to actually make such a big deal about carrying a gun in PUBLIC! I hope you boycott every business on this list. Don't you get it? That's why they put the signs up, because they don't want your business! They don't want deadly weapons in their safe workplace! Do us all a favor and boycott the entire State of Ohio! We don't want you here, you pathetic fat rednecks.

If you are confronted by angry, hate-filled people like this on your daily life, we suggest you consult Lesson #3 in the the OFCC PAC Education Guide.

'Raging Against Self-Defense' is an excellent essay by Dr. Sarah Thompson, Executive Director of Utah Gun Owners Alliance, and a columnist who writes a monthly column on individual rights. Thompson's essay examines the anti-gun mentality from a psychiatric perspective. Not only does she explain how such people think, but she gives excellent advice on how to better communicate with them. The following is from her opening thesis:

"About a year ago I received an e-mail from a member of a local Jewish organization. The author, who chose to remain anonymous, insisted that people have no right to carry firearms because he didn't want to be murdered if one of his neighbors had a "bad day". ...What he was really saying was that if he had a gun, he might murder his neighbors if he had a bad day, or if they took his parking space, or played their stereos too loud. This is an example of what mental health professionals call projection – unconsciously projecting one's own unacceptable feelings onto other people, so that one doesn't have to own them."

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