Chris Christie is part of his environment where anti-gun sentiment is so prevalent that anyone who is pro-gun is seen as an oddball at best, a dangerous psycho at worst. When all of your life you have been told, over and over and over, that guns are the problem, and when virtually no one you know owns guns, let alone carries a gun, it is easy to slip into the anti-gun mentality. I have a nephew in NY who told me he keeps a baseball bat by his bedside in case there is a home invasion and he has to protect his family. He fully understands that it is unlikely that the police will arrive in time to prevent harm to his family, and he understands that a baseball bat is a poor defensive weapon against possibly armed and multiple intruders. Yet he cannot comprehend owning a gun. He believes that the presence of a gun in his home will somehow magically cause an accident or a suicide, or that an intruder or other criminal is more likely to be able to wrest the gun from him than he would be able to use the gun for self defense. This totally irrational and delusional set of beliefs is so common as to be the prevailing mentality in large urban areas in the Northeast. Chris Christie is just another New Jersey resident who abhors guns and cannot comprehend why some of us support and defend the 2nd Amendment as an individual right and that we take responsibility for the defense against crime directed at us or our loved ones rather than wait patiently for the police to arrive and to "save" us.
