Foget the 2nd amendment

There is a reason why gun owners are not really to worried about our gun rights, it's because these anti's are here for the cause when it comes up and not in it every day like gun owners.

I personally have firearms, actually many.  I am an avid big game hunter and travel all across the country to do so.  I find nothing better than being out in the open and enjoying the outdoors with friends and family.  When I am not hunting, my firearms are locked up in a safe with the exception of one handgun used for protection.  Why I have always debated keeping all guns locked up, I am glad I didn't.  I live in a affluent neighborhood and had someone break into my house one night, when i confronted the intruder from about 25 feet away, he came at me, until my handgun was put up at his face.  I never saw somebody run so fast.  I don't know if he had a knife or a gun, but luckily I will never know.  Lives possibly saved that night because of gun owners: 4.

Most people don't realize that the majority of guns that are used in crimes are either very old stolen guns, but are mostly imported illegally from foreign countries, (see the movie Lord of  War" with Nicolas Cage)  Very VERY few guns used in crimes are legally obtained. Yes a few slip through the cracks which is unfortunate, but as said in an earlier post, Bombs, machettes and such could have been used in a similar fashion as the mass killings mentioned before.  I would like to mention though, I do not condone the semi-automatic "assault rifles" that some states allow to be sold. 

I also love how people refer to gun owners as "Rednecks"  Pirate, just because you live in the south and live with some less tolerable people, don't call all gun owners rednecks.  That's what we call in the North "Profiling" your the type that is sexist and racist too.  Gun owners are the people that make this country free.  When you are sitting with your kids playing scrabble bitching about war and gun violence, the people out fighting for this country grew up with firearms hunting and fishing.  Do me a favor, don't move to the "North" we don't want you hear, Canada or England would be glad to have you.  By the way, without firearms, this country would not be the super power it is.  Yes, there are no guns in England, but when other country's need assistance with anything, whose door do they go knocking on?  The United States.  There are many reasons why, but the right to bear arms is one reason is a byproduct of this. 

I will be a proud gun owner for life, I will hunt with them and teach my children how to hunt with the and handle them responsible  Hunting contributes tens of Billions of dollars to the U.S. economy every year, be it through licenses, outfitters, travel expenses equipment and such.  Do you honestly think the goverment is going to stop hunting by banning guns and do that to our economy?  If you do, I want some of what you're smoking!

By the way, the Redneck stereotype of gun owners actually makes me laugh.  I am lucky enough to be provided with a high quality education and have a very good job.  I work with many other people on the High end of the Corporate ladder in downtown Chicago and many of us are gun owners.  We are blessed enough to have the money to buy firearms for our recreation and contribute the money to the NRA and other pro-gun agencies to keep our right to bear arms and guess what, that right isn't going anywhere.

"COnsidering that the amendment was made over 200 years ago when the sountry fought with muskets and cannons, maybe we should just get rid of it in genral.  I for one dont own a gun and dont think that i would be safer if i did."

Get rid of it?  ALL the amendments in the Bill of Rights are 200+ years old.  How about we get rid of the whole deal.  We'd be so much safer if criminals didn't have fourth amendment rights, and if they couldn's "take the fifth" then we could force testimony from 'em easier.

And the BEST thing is there's be no first amendment rights so we wouldn't have to read pesky editorials we disagree with, and then government could force us all into a church and turn us into angels.

Doesn't that sound terrific????

If you do you're a knaif! 

The key is far less people.

And yet from what I here the murder rate over there is going up and up.  "Hot" burglaries are up.  This is the epitome of utopianism.

FYI, Sportlover, we've tried that plan over here.  It's called Washington D.C.  It's also called the "murder capitol of America,"  because while honest people are denied their 2A rights, criminals and gangs have no problem getting them at all.

Separating the people using them for protection and the criminals is hardly a problem.  It's called "police work.."  It's done all the time in America: every years between one and two million people defend themselves against criminals with guns.  Somehow the police manage to determine who the good guys are and who the bad guys are without a lot of trouble.

Glad you like it in London, though.  Guess it saves us from having more of your kind come over here and spoil things for us.

So you're teaching your kids that people with differences are bad. I was born and raised in the south as are my wife and kids. My oldest son is 13 and just got his grandfathers 22 that he got at 13. We shoot cans and targets, and the gun stays locked in the safe with my guns. My guns were handed down to me from my father and his father, and will one day be handed down to my oldest son. My middle child is 11 and he won't shoot until he's 13.

In the south we raise our kids to respect others, all my children say yes sir, no sir and yes mam and no mam. Sometimes the oldest one gets picked on because he shows respect to everyone, but he does whats right.

You don't like the south thats fine, I don't much like the north. But I would still defend your right to express your opinion.

By the way my 11 yr old has 119 IQ "so not all us southners er stupid."

I believe that we shouldn't worry about the second amendment.  It is fine as is and is really not the point here.  For what it's worth, I also do not own a gun. 

That really isn't the point.  What is Marvin Harrison of the Colts doing with such a weapon, owning business' in the worse part of Philadelphia, and why do athletes continue to surround themselves in extremely questionable situations?  Haven't the situations of Sean Taylor, Pacman Jones, Michael Vick, Marcus Vick, Michael Jordan and countless others taught anyone anything?  Make new friends and improve your lot in life with the millions that you now have and move on.

You should really do some research before you spout nonsense. England had a low murder rate BEFORE they instituted gun control. The Swiss have 7 million people with hundreds of thousands of fully automatic rifles in their homes (as do Israelis) and both countries have very low homicide rates.

The U.S. has a higher non-gun murder rate than many European country's total murder rates. On the other hand, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Mexico have non-gun murder rates in excess of our total murder rate.

All from http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html but there are many studies that attempt to understand the relationship of guns and gun control to homicides and none can clearly link them.

On the surface it SEEMS like it should correlate but there are many many other factors.

Bottom line is your comments have absolutely no basis in fact and are therefore irrelevant.