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You have a duty as an American to own a gun. It is a Natural Law any other is a denial of your Natural rights as a human being.

It may be a Natural right to defend's one life and home, but some people are just too chicken**** to even think about. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with other women about this. Many are ignorant and afraid on the matters of self-defense.

When my husband first brought home a shot gun some 6 years ago, I was given admonishments by several women. "What if your child finds the gun and shoots herself?"

I would look at them incredulously, as my daughter was one and a half at the time. Did they seriously think a toddler would be able to lift a 10 lb shotgun, double pump the barrel, reach over to pull the trigger & shoot herself?

I remember asking one girl what she'd do if she had access to a gun if her home was broken into (especially if she had a child) and an armed intruder broke in. She thought on it and said, "You know, I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't kill another person."

And therein lies the problem (with not just America, but much of the world over). You can't kill a person who trying to harm you or steal your property (or worse), but if you convince yourself it's only a mass of tissues or a useless eater, then it's easy to let them die. /end rant

>I remember asking one girl what she'd do if she had access to a
>gun if her home was broken into (especially if she had a child)
>and an armed intruder broke in. She thought on it and said, "You
>know, I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't kill another person."
>

This is pretty much normal, mainly in women. They are just not wired-up that way. You can train it out of them to a certain extent.

It's funniest when it is a far-left liberal who has spouted-off all kinds of "society is responsible for the condition these people finding themselves in (murderers, rapists, muggers, etc), and then they get raped/mugged and withdraw into a frightened post-traumatic stress-disorder jelly-like state, hiding behind the bed-covers. Sheep.

This lack of survival that this woman has is actually a good reason for her not to own a gun, but I wonder if it is real or just some left mumble jumble like that question that doomed the Dukakis campaign. Would you kill to stop the rape and killing of your child? Not answering provides proof that one is maybe not human. There is another post by the new Gun Control Lite effort. The idea is that you don't take on the gun lobby front on, you slink around with arguements that seem "reasonable":

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1397382/posts

"What if your child finds the gun."

I keep my guns in safes. The arsenal of freedom goes in the large safe in the closet. The home protection goes in a quick open pistol safe in the bedroom. A little expense for a lot of peace of mind. My dad took care of that by taking me to the range early and often. He got in trouble with Mom the first time, I was only three, but I started shooting competitively when I was 10. I was offered scholarships to shoot in college, but instead was recruited and wrapped up a Naval Academy appointment 9 month early. I stopped shooting competitively after college and traded my competitive rifle in for a GE M61 20mm cannon in my F-14. My life would have been much different without guns.