Many on the American Left want to eliminate your right to bear arms. Virtually all on the American Right want to protect it.
If you're apathetic about this issue, consider the following:
It's 3:30 in the morning and you and your family are in your home upstairs asleep. A loud noise suddenly startles you awake and you quickly realize that someone has broken into your home and is running up the stairs. Adrenaline enters your bloodstream and you immediately jump from bed. You quickly grab your Glock .40 and take cover on the side of the bed. The door suddenly bursts open and several shots are fired. The two armed assailants are both hit in the chest and left totally incapacitated. You and your family are safe.
Right now you have a choice of what to defend your home with. Obviously, my choice is blue steal with 165 grain hollow points. Maybe I'm nuts, but that choice seems to have better stopping power than calling the cop who is finishing off his third cream-filled donut four miles down the road. The point is that you currently have a choice. If our friends on the Left have their way, you'll eventually have fewer choices with greatly diminished stopping power.
Logistically, it is very difficult for the police to protect you after an assailant has entered your home. Once the intruder enters your living space it is really your responsibility to make sure they leave - and in a much different way than they entered. Specifically, via an ambulance or the meat wagon as in the above example.
Home invasions are more prevalent and the perpetrators increasingly violent. However, the libs continue to harp on the virtues of a gun-less society. The question is, who do they think will be gun-less? Certainly not the criminals.
Consider the divergence of these two quotes:
"The only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes." Sarah Brady - Handgun Control (1993)
"A free people ought to be armed." George Washington (1791)
They could not have more different meanings. Sarah Brady, the gun control czar states that there is no place for guns to be used in self-defense. George Washington, authors that citizens should be armed. Blathering liberal or Father of the Country - who do you stand behind?
The next time you hear that do-gooder or media pundit babbling on about the necessity of creating a gun-less society remember the Washington quote. Oh, and consider my previous point: If guns were banned, who in their right mind actually believes that criminals would hand their guns over to the authorities? By law they are not allowed to have them now!
Nope, the only people turning guns into the authorities would be the law abiding among us, eliminating the last line of defense between the lawful and the predator.
Let's take this one step further and fast forward three years. The Democrat President has just finished celebrating the one year anniversary of the "Gun Abolishment Act" with a big high-brow party at the White House. Earlier that very day, you were forced to turn the last of your firearms over to the authorities. It's now 3:30 in the morning and you and your family are upstairs asleep. A loud noise startles you awake and you quickly realize someone has entered your home and is running up the stairs. Adrenaline enters your bloodstream and you immediately jump from bed. Since you have no gun, you quickly dial 911. As you are connected to an operator the bedroom door bursts open.
Multiple shots are fired, but you only here the first.
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