[Americanexpat]

If these idiots think people are going to give up their guns with all the criminals, hard core gangs and Muslim terrorists and other wackos out there they have to be out of their minds.

Before Noriega was hauled off to jail I lived in a neighborhood terrorized by a local legislator's private army. I did not have a weapon to defend my family, I do now. if they take it away from me I will get another. I will never be without a weapon in my home ever again.

[absalom01]

A few years ago, I was taking my NRA pistol instructor's course, and one of the students was a naturalized American from Nicaragua. At the time, California was trying to decide if the AR-15 series fell under the "assault weapons" definition, and during a break, several of us discussed whether it would be right to register such a rifle if the law so required.

The gentleman from Nicaragua listened for a while, and then asked "Are you guys nuts? Don't you know anything about history? Never register your guns -- they'll just come around and take them. And you can never let them take your guns -- there's only one reason for that."

He had the idiomatic "they and them" all figured out, but he's right. Too bad more of our own native-born urban hoplophobes can't follow the logic, or at least read a history book.