[ExSoldier]

Your tagline exemplifies your hypocrisy. I suggest you change it.

"the deaths of many innocent people that is ignored by the gun lobby"

The gun lobby doesn't ignore such tragedy, it seeks to reduce them by leaving open the access to the tools of self defense. If I choose to defend my home against the predations of gangs and thugs with an AR-15 instead of a lever action .30-30 or a .38sp snubnose revolver, who are YOU or anybody to call that decision into question? On the OTHER hand, the antis revel in every drop of innocent blood spilled, because they feel it advances their cause incrementally. And that is what moderates have brought us: incrementalism. The people who seek to deny freedoms never give anything in a so called "compromise" they just take less and then come back for more later and still more, after that. That's not compromise, that's moderate incrementalism.

[Cold Heat]

You guys ARE nuts!

[Jeff Head]

As you correctly point out...fundamental, unalienable rights cannot be compromised. There is but one end to such a path, and that it the loss of those rights.

In the end, it is about power...whether we shall have the power to defend, protect and make our own path as free individuals, or whether the state shall have that power, and along with it, necesarrily, the power to enslave us.

In the end, that's what this is all about. Our founders understood, and God grant that enough never forget it. As it stands now, with 80+ million gun owners I believe, despite lost ground, that we are still in the drivers seat...and those who crave the power know it.

Jeff

[Cold Heat]

Ya know, I have been on FR since 9/11 or thereabouts, but I have never been called a bunch of names until I decided (for fun mostly) to post on a gun thread and see the reaction.

Call it a social experiment or just curiosity but many posters were quite angry with me.(not that I give a crap)

I suppose I have learned enough about ya'all, and frankly I am not too impressed. (with a few exeptions)

:-(