[coloradan]

Any use of firearms is treated extremely harshly, as are many other offenses. That works until the government itself turns on you.

And the odds that that will happen are pretty good. In the last 100 years, many, many more civilians were killed by their own governments than by criminals or even as combatants in wartime. "It is a mistake a free people get to make only once" according to a dissenting judge from the Ninth Circus.

[Wisard]

It all depends on which end of the Gun YOU are facing or another way to think is whose holding the gun?