Thanks for the insight Rose.....If that's all it takes to stop your lunatic rants....then I will use it myself.....I guess you claim that all the perps in the stories you post are, or were I should say, good legal gun owners prior to the commission of their crimes. How could you possibly know that? I will say up front some probably had not given anyone any reason to prohibit their owning guns prior to the crimes in question, but that can be said of anything..... how do you know every owner of a automobile is legally driving said vehicle? or that said vehicle was legally purchased? How about the person that snaps and grabs a knife from the kitchen or a ball bat and stabs or slits a persons throat or beats them to death? what do you do about them........how about the person that beats their infants until they die...or the person that runs their car into a crowd and kills? Bottom line Rose....you simply do not know by looking at someone if they are going to snap........ No Psychologist or Psychiatrist is going to be able to identify every single person that could at some point in the future snap..... so your arguments hold no water........The best defense is a good offense....and that means meeting force with force....and if I have anything to say about it... with overwhelming force..... I want to come out the winner..... I ain't interested in parity..... I want to be able to at least match, and better yet, outmatch the person that comes at me......... It has been said many times Rose.... you choose to go around unarmed that is your choice.....I choose to arm myself and hope the day never comes that I am forced to use my guns in my or my families defense..............but use them I will and have them I will.........And die for my rights.....you betcha!