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Funny how that cycle works. 
Whereas I fully recognize that if I were to be the victim of violence, it would almost certainly be at the hands of a man, regardless of how well-armed women had recently become.
And in any case, it will be difficult as a practical matter for me to become much better armed than I am already...! 
...to say we have a problem with domestic violence in our society and that one should not make light of violence in the home. Let's not pretend all the violence between the sexes is all one way, after all - revenge can be a real *****.
If one is to believe your rantings, you are excessively and insanely armed. In fact, you seem to have dedicated much of your life to the needless acquisition of weapons of war in lieu of performing good works that might actually benefit someone or something besides your own amusement. But I would state, that as another recently departed poster declared: "you should always share your used toys with those less fortunate..." - ship those excess puppies off to India and Egypt where they can use them!
I'm just guessing, mind you...5 to 1 men to women vs. women to men?
If one is to believe your rantings, you are excessively and insanely armed.
Define excessive and insanely. 
In fact, you seem to have dedicated much of your life to the needless acquisition of weapons of war
Who cares about "need"? I wanted them, and that's enough. As for them primarily being weapons of war...guilty! Military weapons have so much more history than civilian ones, that I simply find them to be inherently more interesting.
in lieu of performing good works that might actually benefit someone or something besides your own amusement.
They are benefiting someone...me! Just as the money I invest in gold and silver bullion does as well, so it's for much more than my own amusement. They're one heck of an investment.
But I would state, that as another recently departed poster declared: "you should always share your used toys with those less fortunate..." - ship those excess puppies off to India and Egypt where they can use them!
But then I wouldn't have them!
...and so clearly we are in for more dead men if the women are now becoming armed! 
"Define excessive and insanely." - 100 guns sitting collecting dust in a safe is bonkers. What are you, the Smithsonian? Seriously, as someone who has spent a substantial portion of his life being formally schooled in the study of history we have a word for people like you: buff. You are a weapons buff, whatever interest you derive from them is like a child to trinkets - you might as well be collecting matchbox cars. At least those don't blow anyone's head the fuck off! Try sharing - seriously, it will make you feel better. Life is not about accumulating as many possessions as one can in order to humor and enrich one's self.
This is what I love about you Soldier of Fortune types, you are so self sure that your way, the American Way, is the only proper way of life. I might ask you this: how do you possibly take joy and pleasure in being someone who needs to pile up guns you have no real use for merely to pleasure yourself. I'm going to do you a favor and recommend a literary work to you, something healthy to do besides playing with your guns, I give you the: Lysistrata by Aristophanes - please indulge yourself in some real culture, because the gun nut think clearly isn't helping your personality, in that, you come off as a greedy, self-centered, dilettante - those are hardly charming qualities a human being.
Rid-yourself of your chains and try to live charitably. Do try and develop a sense of grace, old chap. 
(Note to jury: if this was a personal attack it would not be so well-phrased). 
having a few more dead men is fine with me.
"Define excessive and insanely." - 100 guns sitting collecting dust in a safe is bonkers. What are you, the Smithsonian?
I'm aiming more for the Cody Firearms Museum, which houses the most comprehensive collection of American firearms in the world. I've visited it a couple of times on my way to Yellowstone. Not surprisingly, it's one of my favorite museums!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Firearms_Museum#Cody_Firearms_Museum
(Good grief, is that a Dardick revolver 5th from the top? I don't remember that, and have never seen one for sale at a gun show!
Seriously, as someone who has spent a substantial portion of his life being formally schooled in the study of history we have a word for people like you: buff.
I think that's a perfectly reasonable term.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/buff
One who is enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a subject
It's the first time I've seen it used as a pejorative, though...
You are a weapons buff, whatever interest you derive from them is like a child to trinkets - you might as well be collecting matchbox cars. At least those don't blow anyone's head the fuck off!
What's wrong with collecting? I actually know a guy who collects matchbox cars. It's not my cup of tea, but I don't begrudge him his hobby. As for being a buff, here are car buffs, Civil War buffs, film buffs, football buffs...what in the world is wrong with being a gun buff?
Try sharing - seriously, it will make you feel better.
I do share with friends and family.
Life is not about accumulating as many possessions as one can in order to humor and enrich one's self.
(looking around in horror...) It's not? You've just destroyed my entire worldview! Well, you can just rock me to sleep tonight...
Seriously, though, while that's not while life is all about, it's certainly part of it!
This is what I love about you Soldier of Fortune types, you are so self sure that your way, the American Way, is the only proper way of life.
"Soldier of Fortune type"? As Bugs Bunny used to say, "He don't know me very well, do he?" Rest assured that I have not the slightest delusion regarding my ability hire myself out as a mercenary or play Rambo. I'm a competent shooter, and I have a fairly broad knowledge base regarding small arms...that's it!
I might ask you this: how do you possibly take joy and pleasure in being someone who needs to pile up guns you have no real use for merely to pleasure yourself.
The same way a coin collector takes joy a pleasure piling up coins that he has no real use for merely to pleasure himself.
When one has as interest in a particular subject, it's fun to collect objects associated with that interest.
Is this actually such a foreign concept to you? That's rather....odd, to say the least.
I'm going to do you a favor and recommend a literary work to you, something healthy to do besides playing with your guns, I give you the: Lysistrata by Aristophanes - please indulge yourself in some real culture
Oh, real culture at last! How have I survived all this time in the wasteland of my 8,000 book library? And no, they're not all books on guns. Those only fill half a dozen bookshelves! Then there are all the books on military technology, war in general (heavy emphasis on WW2), wartime propaganda, general history, Disneyana (I'm a bit of a Disney buff as well!), animation, astronomy, paleontology, transportation technology, roleplaying games (especially GURPS and Call of Cthulhu), film, pinup art, science fiction art, graphic novels (comic buff!), and a few thousand science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels.
Yeah...I'm a nerd.
Tell you what, I will give Lysistrata a look, although I'm in the middle of reading Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence right now. Can't recommend it highly enough, the scope of the series is fantastic, with an emphasis on speculative cosmology staring with the first few picoseconds after the Big Bang and not ending until proton decay starts being a concern 10 to the 80th power years in the future.
Now that's what I call literature!
because the gun nut think clearly isn't helping your personality, in that, you come off as a greedy, self-centered, dilettante - those are hardly charming qualities a human being.
Greedy? I suppose some would characterize it so. My definition of greed is someone who's willing to give you the shirt of someone else's back. I'm certainly not greedy in that sense.
Self-Centered? As I humbly pointed out earlier, I'm generous to friends and family.
Dilettante? In regards to the subject at hand, I think I have more than a dabbler's knowledge of firearms.
...more women seem to be packing heat! I would need to see some statistics on the use of weapons by men in robberies/assaults against women before we concluded that this in fact the case. 
...the excessive arming of male society via the gun culture creates "loose guns" that are obtained by criminal elements and used to create suffering. 
