Reply #379: Gentlemen TIME OUT...The anti-gun crowd SHOULD remember this:

[...of J.Temperance]

This is what anti-gun people should remember, and it's quite simple:

GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.

Everyone on this thread who owns a firearm or firearms, we're ALL responsible people and we ALL have firearms for legitimate reasons. We're NOT a bunch of shoot 'em up homicidal maniacs. So the people here who are anti-gun and anti-2nd Amendment need to try and get their heads around that. But I'm going to point out again, that IF someone who I think is a threat and is actually acting in a threatening way comes within TEN FEET of me, then I'm GOING to deal with them and it'd be odds-on that that person is going to be hurting BADLY.

It's beyond ridiculas to compare the people here with someone like Randy Weaver, as that bizarre comparison WAS used earlier in this thread, and there was an equally bizarre comparison with Bo Gritz.

I myself am sick and tired of the Republicans claiming to OWN the gun issue and them claiming to be the ONLY party that can speak for and defend 2nd Amendment rights. They have NO RIGHT to have some lock on these issues...and the way I see it, we should just go right in there and get in their faces and steal these issues off them. And we CAN do this in a responsible, adult and sensible way.

Al Gore lost many votes in the South because people THOUGHT he was going to take their gun off them. So we need OUR people out and about in communities, talking to other gun owners about how we're NOT going to take their guns away from them.

We also need to wrestle control of the NRA away from the reactionary element. Many NRA members are already Democrats...you know, in 2002 when Senator Mary Landrieu was running for re-election, there were HUGE numbers of people with NRA bumber stickers and NRA hats that we saw at Senator Landrieu's rallies. They voted for her because they KNEW she wasn't going to ban their guns. So the way I see it, being pro-gun is a winning issue for us.

So I'm going to have a nap now, but so many people have their panties in a wad over this issue, and it shouldn't be that way.

MrBenchley, darlin', try and understand our point of view JUST a tad :)

GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.