Just a cuppla thoughts relevent to gun control.

1. Our government was formed with the tenets of gun ownership rights for all citizens to insure we'd be able to defend ourselves from foreign and native invaders, attackers and ..... the government itself should we ever need to do so.

2. During WWII the Japanese pondered an attack upon the western coast of the US but felt because of the significant number of US citizens with weapons they'd likely meet some pretty stiff resistance from the citizens alone (not even counting whatever military presence they would also encounter) and thought better of the idea.

3. Criminals by their nature are typically lazy and (at least inwardly) cowardly. Any criminal will tell you they usually choose their targets based upon the amount of resistance/problems they might encounter from instigating a crime and will always choose the path of the least resistance when that choice is available. This means they'll usually avoid any confrontation where a victim is likley to be armed. Kinda goes along with the "self preservation" thing

With the above in mind the "gun control" advocates seem to missing a few real issues with their concept of making society safer by removing citizens rights to legally posess and bear arms. They would be putting us all at greater risk from the above mentioned groups: invaders, attackers, the govt., and criminals !!!

Though at 1st read the previously mentioned laws in Japan might sound good and surely such laws would seemingly bring down the number of gun related crimes, I do see a BIG issue with part of it.

Anytime one hands over the right to decide when a citizen has a
"need" or valid purpose to own a weapon to a government entity it's only a few short steps from there to the point where the decision is also made to legislate gun ownership rights at all out of the hands of citizens.

I NEVER want anyone to decide for me if I have a legitimate need to own a gun ! That's MY choice to make, and no one elses. Just because some bleeding heart fucker thinks I shouldn't have the right to own a gun has no bearing for me on whether I should, nor can anyone reasonably predict with any amount of sureity that I will never in my life have a need to protect or defend myself, loved ones or property