Jim, let me point out something to you as a matter of contention. for a long time in Europe it was illegal to own a gun or firearm because the governments their prohibited it. Thats why minorities like Jews couldn't fight back against lynch mobs and pogroms in Russia and other places. Europe even after the Enlightenment was very gun control but whose liberal thinking people overlooked certain problems like in Germany and France where Anti-antisemitism was rampant. I am a big defender of gun rights. Not because I dislike liberals and I don't it because it s a lesson of history. Human nature is human nature, and despite what some liberals say about making society better overall, that doesn't deter me from protecting myself. In Nazi Germany you couldn't own a gun, even in most Democratic societies in Europe today gun control is very strict, and thats the problem IMHO Jim.
Ted Nugent may be a tad bit on the wacko side, but he said it best, an armed society is a polite society.