Dude, the guy is quadriplegic. You might take a chance too if you were quadriplegic.
I've got an peripheral nerve implant that was installed on an experimental basis myself. It was not a fangirl situation, it was a "please please please help me with this pain" situation.
Given that they had a test failure that would have led to mission failure like 2 weeks before launch and said "yeah we figured it out, we're good" and launched the fucker, a little nail biting was justified.
I agree that it doesn't make much statistical sense to feel safer with a hand gun owning neighbor than a rifle owning neighbor, which is what the survey seems to say.
I think it's really telling us something about the branding of this particular firearm (and its stereotypical owner).
Gun owners who demand that you have a favorite brand of gun oil before you are allowed to have an opinion will, as a group, gladly make profoundly ignorant statements about regulating other people's religions, medical conditions, sexual preferences...
David Brooks and the rest of the NYT editorial board will be totally behind puppy murder in a week, and I'll have to hear my liberal friends both sides it...
His skin tone is so different from everybody else's, it's weird.