[MindBender26]

Unfortunately, you would die bravely, and quickly.

The problem is not guns, laws, rights, etc. The problem is that pro-2d Ammendment people have done a horible job of building support for their issue.

To quote Mr. Lincoln,

"With public support,
anything is possible

Without public support,
nothing is."

The reality is, we (I'm NRA life member) are losing the battle for the preservaton 2d Ammendment, and unless we change our tactics and build PUBLIC support, it's over in 20-30 years.

All it takes is ONE USSC decision, by a Dem packed court, changing the defination of "Well Regualted Militia, and we are toast. BTW, the problem is not with the the definition of "Militia." It would much easier for anti-gun lawyers to attack through the "Well-Regualted" phrase. What's "Well-Regualted" about some drunk wife-beater using a gun to shoot his kids? If we fall, we'll fall on the argument of "Well-Regualted Militia" only applying to the National Guards.

Don't get me wrong. I think it describes each of us, but it's not what I, or you think that counts. It's the USSC's decision.

We are one of very few countries left with firearms freedoms, and we will lose them unless we start working to develop PUBLIC support, rather than posture ourselves as one issue people protected by law, a law which some court could re-interpret at any time.

Remember, a President appoints the judges. Now do you see the foolishness of those who would stay home on election day? They are effectively giving half a vote to a candidate who would appoint judges to take away all fireamrs!

[IGOTMINE]

Two morons with a crappy car and a semi-decent rifle shut down the DC area for three weeks last year. If they'd have had half a brain they'd still be running free.

[spunkets]

The public support you speak of doesn't apply strictly to guns and never will. It applies to to the character traits and principles of the electorate. There will always be a solid 30+ % of folks that value Freedom and another ~30% that values a combo of nanny state and socialism. The remaining 40% is wishy washy and lies in the middle somewhere. The principle character traits of the unprincipled middle is that they basically would rather have things done for them and not have any responsibility.

Most of them are to lazy to think and fearful. It doesn't take much to scare them. Since it is not in them to act on their own initiative, they will never find value in having their own tools and determining their own destiny. The 2nd Amendment is one of those rights that only the principled value. The protection of rights is a consideration that caused the formation of a Republic with a Bill of Rights, rather htan a democracy of mob rule. As DeToqueville noted, once the voter learned to raid the treasury, the country would falter and Freedom would be lost.