If you're like me, you struggle with how to INTERACT with others who seem so hard-hearted (edited)

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52. Don't feel bad, snappyturtle. I'm in a funk today too. Been there for a couple of weeks,

but the Colorado massacre really got to me. I've been flamed several times (or at least, considering the mood I've been in, I REGARD it as being flamed) by these never-ending gun apologists who hang on every technicality, every typo, every weird little crumb of minutae regarding definitions and what does and doesn't qualify as such-and-such kind of gun, and I've just lost patience. I no longer feel the need to see their side of it. I find nothing redeeming or excusable in their side anymore, anyway. And I'm sick of hearing the BS from them about how their sacred right to arm themselves any which-a-way they feel like must ALWAYS trump my right to live free of fear of a domestic terrorist or other nutcase, or the lives and safety of those 12 who were murdered and the dozens more who were injured, some still on the critical list.

In the case you're making, I understand and sympathize completely. I'm just kinda out of tolerance and patience with the selfish and greedy and all the reasons they give, even Biblical references, to excuse their hard hearts toward the poor, the needy, the uninsured, the homeless, the hungry, the shat-upon, and the trickled-down-upon. I just don't want to hear from those people anymore and I'm not the least bit interested in their excuses as to why we need to be so mindful and tender and considerate toward what Garrison Keillor refers to as "the suffering of billionaires."

Your post is just fine. Nothing to regret in it, at all, as far as I can see. I think you've summed up what a lot of us are feeling.