For those of us with 350 years of family investment in this great nation, those of us with fathers and uncles and grandfathers who have bled for this country, I can assure him and those like him: we will not stand around while his kind drains us of our freedom for his so-called safety. What he wants will give him neither safety nor freedom, and we're not going to wait for him and his kind to suddenly realize that their choices led to a totalitarian state, and armed citizens with the dangers they pose were preferable to losing the republic of our founding fathers.
His kind thinks they can see the future, and they tell us there are no threats that would ever require armed citizens to defend this nation, neither foreign nor domestic. Either that, or we should simply give up and refuse to resist -- much as the Iraqis did. I tell them today to make their own choice; I've already made mine.
The great American experiment in democratic rule is too fragile to go unguarded with constant vigilance. That's exactly why we were encouraged to remain armed and ready at a minute's notice to stand up and fight for our land and our Constitution. No matter what these safety mavens think they require, they'll have to change the Constitution before they'll make us put down our weapons for their tawdry peace of mind. Theirs is a meaningless contentment, one that ignores the true safety that has been bought at the expense of nearly a million dead American soldiers on battlefields here and abroad, not to mention our brave policemen who remain armed in the line of duty every day, laying their lives down for us without hesitation.
Safety mavens didn't buy us our security: the armed American soldier did, and still does. Ask him what he thinks, he who does put his life online for us, not this squeamish and fearful type who thinks his own death amounts to much compared to the destiny of this nation.
Unfortunately I'm not so sure we can pass him off as a recent immigrant on the basis of his remarks. All too many native sons have been brain washed in that sort of new-age thinking. The mindset you describe.
He definitely started off by throwing around some nasty innuendos about us but that's probably just a kneejerk reaction to his fear of firearms which is born of ignorance and fed on propaganda. If we don't all throw rocks at him perhaps he'll find out something he never knew. Re-education has to start somewhere.