If you are a Democrat and in your mid-50s or older you saw...
John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. shot to death.
And the Republicans in this country turning the 2nd Amendment into a farce by making people afraid of the people that followed people that were...well, shot...so they need all the handguns they want to stem the fear.
So naturally...
Tucson Tea Party Leader: We Won't Change Our Rhetoric After Giffords Shooting
Because self-censoring yourself from being crude, abusive, and inflammatory language is somehow a loss of your First Amendment rights.
Their goal isn't just to keep their guns, it is to continue to be un-shunned for proclaiming they love their fucking guns more than they love people or well, anything.