[DugwayDuke]

“An armed citizenry is more than a match for terrorists.”

Really? A match for terrorists armed with nuclear and chemical weapons?

“If just some passengers and pilots had been armed on 9/11, we would have had 19 dead terrorists and few if any other casualties.”

Very wishfull thinking considering the terrorists would also have been armed, acting as a team, and with the elements of surprise and training on their side. If you’re USMC as your screen name seems to signify, you should know that five trained men working as a team can whip many times their number of untrained and surprised individuals.

[Iwo Jima]

I stand by my statements.

Explain how terrorists (not nations, but rogue terrorists) will get nuclear or chemical weapons. Also, even if they do, how will that make us follow Sharia law?

Our government can and should track who has nuclear or chemical weapons, and act if their intentions are shown to be to harm us.

But beyond that, the idea that gangs of terrorists are going to come over here and force us to follow Sharia law is absurd. Americans are made of hardier stock than that.

As a group.

As to the presence of guns, experience has shown that more guns means less crime. Especially widespread anonymous possession. If our government had not disarmed us in the air, there would not have been 3000 dead Americans on 9/11.