Most of the morons who spout the “they will never disarm me” line won’t even join the NRA. And we are supposed to believe they will die to save something. Bullshit! and Bullshit! again.
Small arms and light weapons, in our understanding, are the strictly military arms — automatic rifles, machine guns, shoulder-fired missile and rocket systems, light mortars — that are contributing to continued violence and suffering in regions of conflict around the world.
We separate these military arms from firearms such as hunting rifles and pistols, which are commonly owned and used by citizens in many countries. As U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has said, “just as the First and Fourth Amendments secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms.”
The United States believes that the responsible use of firearms is a legitimate aspect of national life. Like many countries, the United States has a cultural tradition of hunting and sport shooting. We, therefore, do not begin with the presumption that all small arms and light weapons are the same or that they are all problematic. It is the illicit trade in military small arms and light weapons that we are gathered here to address and that should properly concern us.7
To paraphrase General Patton, "Nobody ever saved something by dieing to save it. They saved it by making some other person die while trying to destroy it."
We're still in that awkward time.
Agreed. There’s a quote that says, “ If a person won’t fight when the fighting is easy, don’t expect them to fight when it’s difficult”.
Think about something for a second. There are gunowners who are mad at the NRA for sending them mail. They won’t get up from the lazyboy to throw out an envelope and they expect me to believe they will watch my back?