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Well, yes, I admit it, I am afraid. I am afraid that it is so easy to buy a gun.

Get you facts straight. Oops, first get some facts.

Buying a gun today is harder than it was in 1963, but we seem to have more problems today than in 1963 when anyone could mail order anything. Obviously it isn't gun availablity that causes the problems.

So easy for a kid to find his parent's gun and shoot himself or his classmates.

It happens. It is a criminal act. % gallon buckets kill more children than do home gun accidents. If you have fright, be frightened of buckets. And swimming pools. And skateboards.

Yes, gun don't kill people, but it's less easy for people to kill or for their kids to have an accident if we make sure it's not so easy to get one.

First off, what is 'easy' about getting a gun and since criminals don't usually buy guns a retail, making it harder for a citizen to do so is simply wrong strategy. Second, guns are used on over 2 million self defense situations every year, most without firing a shot. The mere display of a gun wards off the attacker. I've experienced this personally.

Do you really know what is like to go through a school mass shooting? I do. The gun did NOT leave it's rightful owner's home, walk itself to school, and fire itself into a crowd of kids. A criminally minded kid chose to become a murderer in order to make a wierd statement. Remember, those terrorists who killed thousands on 9-11 did so without a single gun.

If safety is the focus, then guns should not be the target. If guns are the target, then safety is not the focus.

What do you expect from kids whose parents give them everything, overdose everyday on TV violence and are never spanked, are over protected? There is pain in life. Pain is not fun, but how else is a human being going to learn compassion, empathy and charity? You learn these things early in life. If you don't, you end up a cold, heartless, scheming a-hole. I'm not saying parents should abuse their children, but they should not be too hard on themselves if they sometimes disappoint them.

To people in Washington and to the gun control advocates my life may just be a statistic or number to them and they don't care and they use those numbers to add to their irrational conclusions. But to me my life is precious and worth protecting before I'm killed. And if you are killed, who says that even justice will be done?

I had a home invasion about 10 years ago. I was unarmed and I got beat up pretty bad. I'm lucky to be alive. The police came and they asked me a lot of questions, but did not find the criminal. The police would not even respond to my inquiries about the progress of the investigation. They did nothing. The gun control advocates and our congress critters sure didn't care. Something like this only has to happen to you once and you learn that the police cannot protect you, believe me. They are a deterrent. Gun ownership is also a deterrent and CCW is even a better deterrent. It makes it really risky for the criminals.

To these gun-control kooks, I say..."I don't believe you. You are liars and propagandists. You hate life. You hate people. You want the rest of us to suffer for your guilt. Get a life."