“Fear the Government that fears it Citizens being armed”
Says it all. Without guns we are not Citizens, we are Subjects.

Our forefathers gave us the right to bear arms. There was no such thing back then as automatic assault weapons. I hardly think they would agree with citizens having the right to bear and carry these killing machines. The only ones who should have these weapons are the Military, not even law enforcement would need them if they were outlawed. I have guns but I sure hope banning assault weapons isn’t a dead issue.

It is quite clear that certain weapons were not ment to be in the hands of the average citizen. I have no desire to own an ICBM with a nuke warhead. I don’t need ground to air missels or air-to-ground… Hand grenades and other explosives are not often used to hunt deer with either. However, I DO feel that I need the right to arm myself as well as the typical robber. I don’t want to find myself going against 3 robbers with fully automatic weapons while have to defend myself with a single shot 22.

I am a firm believer in the addage that passing a pile of laws will NOT make a law breaker quit breaking the law. Usually, passing more laws just makes criminals out of what used to be law abiding cizens.

If I were “Prince of the Plannet” I would outlaw all WMD’s from public ownership, require all automatic weapons to be registered at both state and federal level and not worry about simi-automatic or single action weapons.

With hundreds of laws currently in force relative to weapon ownership we still have a lot of people killed witht the “outlawed” weapons. Back in the 1800’s, when “open carry” was the standard, very few killings actually occured. Most of the citizens today seem to think that back then all the men woke up, got dressed, strapped on their guns and went outside and started shooting. That was NOT the case at all. One of the bloodiest years, west of the Mississippi, between 1850 and 1900 saw exactly twelve (12) people killed in gunfights! We have that many in a week in any city over 500,000 today. The reason is clear. when only outlaws have guns, they are quick to use them. When it is obvious that all of the law abiding citizens also have them, the bad guys tend to keep their guns in their holster. The bad guys have no more desire to be dead that any of their victims.

Ummm…. fully automatic weapons are already registered and licensed at both state and federal levels. The reality is that gun control laws don’t stop criminals; the BATFE has already found illegally manufactured firearms that are as good as those made by legitimate makers.

The real point is that criminals target areas they perceive as being soft targets; when was the last time someone attempted a mass shooting at a target range or a skeet club? Any official “gun free” zone is only free of firearms in the hands of the law abiding and is a magnet for any psychopath who wishes to go down in history.

I’m not particularly concerned about what the rest of the world thinks of our “gun crime rate.” The French habit of riots accompanied by fatal beatings and homicidal arson attacks doesn’t appeal to me; neither does the habit in some nations of hacking people to death with edged weapons or clubs. The nasty habit of using bombs common to some other parts of the world doesn’t appeal to me either. I also note that the most surveilled society in the world is Great Britain and it doesn’t seem to have stopped crime as much as expected although it has had a chilling effect on free speech – and did I mention that most of Europe, including Britain, has strict censorship laws? Heck, in parts of Europe if you belong to a religion the state doesn’t recognize your children are barred from public schools.

BTW, the Wild West was actually very peaceful; the places with the most shootouts were places run by the likes of the Earp gang who imposed “gun control” to maintain their monopolies on prostitution and gambling, and to ensure that they could extort from ranch hands and businessmen with impunity. Those who think that Wyatt Earp was some sort of honest lawman need to go back to school; after Earp left Kansas, he went on to be involved in various illegal activities and acts of violence throughout the west; in fact, he went on to take up claim jumping at both Embry Camp and Colville, Washington, both in the northeastern part of the state. (Older members of my family always referred to the Earps as the “pimp gang” because of stories told to them by their pioneer parents; this was shocking because even elderly matrons described the Earps as being in the “whore trade” – which, of course, they were.)

In other words, when violence occurred in the “Wild West” it was because criminal gangs ran the local town.