One Nation, Under Gun

It's sad, and frightening, that so many of us live in fear of having to protect ourselves and our families with lethal force. This fear is causing us to cling for dear life to an antiquated ideal that was written at a time when this nation was in the midst of its unstable, and often violent, birth. Lest we forget, there were people living here before the Europeans arrived. People who were themselves the very victims of home invasion that we now so fear. Kind of ironic, No? Because of the governmental tyranny the pilgrims were running from, and because life on the frontier was indeed dangerous at times, gun ownership was much more of a necessity for the common citizen back then. But now...? Any rational person should see that it really isn't. And I'm not saying we should ban them. All I'm asking for is a little 21st century common sense in terms of realizing that our Constituion, while beloved, may be in need of some modernizing. It was fashioned using ideals and from a world perspective that simply no longer applies. Gun control doesn't mean the government is just taking away everyone's rights. It's got to be more intricate than that, because it is not a simple Yes/No issue. I support a law-abiding citizen's right to own a gun, and hunt, target shoot, etc. And, God forbid, protect himself. BUT, if anyone thinks that there isn't a huge problem with illegal gun ownership/possession; with well-documented carelessness amongst gun owners; with the general ease of access to guns, etc, etc... that person is fooling themselves. This is the classic double-edged sword. The bottom line is that no one, gun advocates and gun opponents alike, should be comfortable with the current system. And no one should think that this prevailing fear of having to protect oneself is a healthy outlook to have of society.

This is a very dangerous country

As to gun ownership for protection and hunting is within the constitution, but the lines of miliitary assault weapons is just not right. Admenment 2 and Borlock you probally agree with the shootings in Cullombine and other copy cat killing spree unless it was someone in your family. Purpose for guns is to hunt and protect that is neither liberal or conservative and those words are irrelevent to the topic. You both need re read the Constitution and history behind the matter not just put out loaded words of emotions.

we will NEVER dis arm ouselves. are you going to ban water from your home because you can drown. enough already you liberal pansies, The supreme court ha spoken.

The firearm is not going to be dis-invented any more than flight, electricity or the internal combustion engine.
And today there are discrimination campaigns waged against American firearms owners from the shadows in which a Those People's rights are a threat ! If the propaganda can convince someone a persons' rights are a threat that person will believe it is COMMON SENSE to take that right away!
The people commited to this discrimination campaign span the body of elected leaders, groups, and are threaded threw the news media.
Of course, no one will accept responsibility for a discrimination campaign.

It is good to see an article revealing the real people who owne firearms.We see they do not sleep under abandoned cars, and wear rags! But this does not conform with the discrimination campaign and bogus "threat" message!
But no matter since the call to action is remove rights! Funny how Americas main stream liberals oppose ONLY gender or ethnic discrimination but get pretty enthused about the discrimination campaign against firearms owners...which raises the question about just how sencere are they about opposing discrimination campaigns... when it comes down to it!
So boys and girls,if it's a revolution you want to turn the world back a few hundred years the Taliban is looking for recruits!
Tough punishment for the violent criminal works to make our communitys safer. Not discrimination campaigns no matter how good they are , because there are no good ones!

America is a country armed to the teeth, and the statistics of the carnage concomitant with that are easy for anyone to find, and see. The reality is that we already have "gun control." When's the last time you saw your neighbor with a 50 calibre machine gun? Or a grenade launcher? I could go on and on, but you take my point: certain weapons are already banned, and at some future time we will completely disarm ourselves. The only question is, when? There is no doubt in my mind that the Framers had no conception of a nation where the citizenry is armed with handguns. Why else the phrase "a well regulated militia?"

'The right to keep and bear arms' is an outdated concept, conceived in a time when guns referred to flintlock muskets, not to (semi-) automatic rifles with high capacity magazines. If the Bush administration was ever serious about stopping the 'bad guys' from acquiring WMOD they should have banned any redneck gun nut from owning AK-47s (or any other assault rifle) as they have killed more people, and at a lower cost price, than any other weapon in the last 60 years. Far more Americans are being killed in gun-related incident in the US than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

'The right to keep and bear arms' is an outdated concept, conceived in a time when guns referred to flintlock muskets, not to (semi-) automatic rifles with high capacity magazines. If the Bush administration was ever serious about stopping the 'bad guys' from acquiring WMOD they should have banned any redneck gun nut from owning AK-47s (or any other assault rifle) as they have killed more people, and at a lower cost price, than any other weapon in the last 60 years. Far more Americans are being killed in gun-related incident in the US than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

there is no doubt what the founders thought george mason father of the bill of rights said this to disarm the people is the best way to enslave them, dont like guns thats your right, but dont deprive me of mine

there is no doubt what the founders thought george mason father of the bill of rights said this to disarm the people is the best way to enslave them, dont like guns thats your right, but dont deprive me of mine

there is no doubt what the founders thought george mason father of the bill of rights said this to disarm the people is the best way to enslave them, dont like guns thats your right, but dont deprive me of mine

My wife and I legally carry concealed handguns daily. Why, to protect ourselves! We also wear seatbelts in our cars. Why, to protect ourselves! Will we ever use our guns to protect ourselves? Probably not. Did we ever think we would need our guns or our seatbelts? NO, but we still had them on us! Good thing because a seatbelt saved my life 28yrs ago when I was hit headon by a drunk driver! If not for a seatbelt I would have died! I do not intend to die at the hands of someone meaning me bodily harm. Thank GOD I live in the USA where we are free and TRUSTED TO OWN FIREARMS! I know of many foreign lands where NO ONE IS FREE and they can't get a gun to defend themselves and live at the mercy of ruthless dictators or even cival governments like England and Australia! These people are not TRUSTED BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS AND ARE NOT TRULY FREE!

Ok like people might need tools that protect the way of life, "money." Especially if it's their families from the nicest people on erath. I don't know where "erath" is but it sounds kind of like a bizarro "earth". Could be dangerous. I mene really. Maybe the people there aren't so nice, even if they're only "pot smoking coka sniffing (erath) teen down the street" who break into a house that "just reeks of 'security'. And yes, "maybe the, 'Blackwater' thing was a staging point for the big homecoming to come." Uh, yeah... I don't know ethur but "people who can't spell, form a cogent thought, and proudly advertise as much scare me."

Ok like we have a gun store in the nice utopia that is Culpeper VA.The town is a NRA hotbed,with the deer hunters and the exmilatry guys.America loves there guns as long a they are tools that protect the way of life,"money."I mene you really need to protect your familly from the nicest place on erath.The 400.000 thosand dollar house just reeks of "security." If anyone braks in it's the pot smoking coka sniffing teen down the street.Maybe thier planning for some type of armed insurrection.Maybe the,"Blackwater" thing was a staging point for the big homecoming to come.I don't know but "they scare me."