"We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children"

[thefool_wa]

94. You don't know unless you try.

And I wasn't talking about how the shooter got the gun, I said that is why one should take a gun to the movies with them.

Maybe not me, I don't carry, as I have said repeatedly in this thread, I don't own a gun. However, my brother was a marine, is a crack shot, and fearless. IF him and i had been at the movies that day, that guy would not be on trial today, he would be dead, and rightfully so.

I get you don't like guns, but what if I don't like the freedom of speech, or feel that jury trials are costing the government too much money and in this age of deficit spending we should just do away with them for efficiency sake. They are all rights and all should be protected equally as all have equal (yes equal) potential for harm. Don't believe me? How many people have died over religious disputes in the world? What about people imprisoned or put to death for speaking their mind? rights are inherently dangerous, and this one is FUNDAMENTAL to the protection of our nation, so important that it is ratified BEFORE habeus corpus, jury trials, pretty much everything except religion, speech and press.

So ya, its more important than your illusion of safety. Even in Norway, where guns are way more regulated than they are here, someone still walked into a camp of children with a semi-auto rifle (an illegal one I believe) and started killing them. You will never be 100% safe, all you can do is protect yourself.