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But wouldn't that prove who the sociopathic personality was? Especially if you gave your answer in a calm and gentle tone of voice.

Try this:

Why do you own a camera/ printing press/ typewriter/ book, guitar? BECAUSE I WANT TO! That's why. It's legal to own one and it's my Constitutional right to own one. I don't have to justify myself to you.

Why do you own more than one camera/ printing press/ typewriter/ book, guitar? BECAUSE I WANT TO! That's why. It's legal to own more than one and it's my Constitutional right to own more than one. I don't have to justify myself to you.

See? Substitute any number of other Constitutionally protected items for the word "gun" and most of the emotion vanishes.

I don't have to justify to anyone why I take pictures, write letters to the editor, participate in an internet forum, read books on a myriad of subjects or play guitar and no one asks me to. Treat the stupid question of gun ownership like the stupid question it is, matter-of-factly and without emotion.

It's high time we (meaning gun owners) stop tiptoeing around that fact and trying to justify ourselves to the forces of evil (meaning anti's). We don't owe them any explanation. We don't owe them any justification. Owning guns is legal, moral and right. Having guns in your checked luggage is legal, moral and right. Who cares what the forces of evil think? That's part of the problem: we spend too much energy worrying about what our enemies think of us.

Why do you own a gun? BECAUSE I WANT TO! That's why. It's legal to own one and it's my Constitutional right to own one. I don't have to justify myself to you.

Why do you own more than one gun? BECAUSE I WANT TO! That's why. It's legal to own more than one and it's my Constitutional right to own more than one. I don't have to justify myself to you.

All this sneaking around just makes it somehow seem illegitimate to those who don't understand. Stop hiding it! Be proud to be a gun owner! The more that people can see that you're just like them, the better. Treat your gun ownership like the non-issue it is.

I would have told the news crew about the real gun just to see their reaction.