There are some real hurdles to ban guns in the United States, a lack of votes is the small hurdle. States rights will return to the forefront again in a way that we haven’t seen since the Cival War. So coming for my guns, I doubt.

What does concern me is the stupidity of belief that pistol grips, flash hiders or magazine limited to 10 rounds will somehow make a difference.

Until we start making a difference in the lives of those that have no value for life there will continue to be death at the hands of a criminal.

As posted above “When seconds counts, a cop is only minutes away”.

Think about it, you are your best defense. Avoiding the areas prone to crime is but a symptom of the greater problem.

We need to end the war on drugs and start putting criminals in prison and onto the express lane of death row.

That should be a sentence never spoken in the United States. This is a RIGHT, as affirmed by the Supreme Court. Permits are for privileges. The state/federal government should have no place to tell you whether or not you can have a gun, unless you are a felon (which, duly convicted by a jury of their peers, has had their rights suspended by due process of law).

Also, the second amendment was not about personal protection. It was to prevent tyrannical control. Please, read the Declaration of Independence! (Yes, I realize it was a document separate of the Constitution and the accompanying Bill of Rights, but it shows intent.)

“…But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Nice job in finally using a spell-check before you post. Although writing “gonna” does make you seem like some illiterate, text-messaging teenager.

You get this kind of stuff pointed out to you when you appoint yourself as the spelling martinet (like you did in your first comment).

As for you right-bashing Lefties, I voted against B.O. and I also believe W. will be remembered as the worst president in US history. B.O. may or may not keep his word about the gun issue; I want to believe him, but having already suffered significasntly in the 2A-rights arena here in Cali, I’m very uncomfortable right now. I’m even more uncomfortable about the economy, but that’s getting off-topic. Suffice it to say I’m not a single-issue voter.

Yet you think that the ‘normal enjoyment’ of Internet use includes setting up a widget-choked site like this one and stocking it with borderline illiterate right-wing conspiracy theorists who make it their life’s mission to invent and propagate ridiculous lies about the next U.S. president? He won’t even take office for over a month and you hammerheads are practically calling for impeachment already.

Are any of you honest enough to acknowledge that the Bush administration f*cked up your country and probably made you, personally, poorer over the past 8 years? Or are you just gonna pretend the first morning Obama wakes up in the White House that he’s uniquely responsible?

You guys need jobs. That would be a start. Thing is, the Bushies have made those kind of hard to find, now, haven’t they.

Get help. Get a life.

How is asking how a PPK is going to protect his rights an ad hominem attack? Or, is that just a word on your calendar for the day and you thought you’d use without understanding it?

You tools (that’s ad hominem) need guns to protect yourself from the scary Commie and his desire to take your gun (that’s not) A PPK isn’t gonna chase away any Blackhawks? Ask David Koresh. If the government wanted your gun, it would take it.