Why do those who describe us gun toting, bible thumping, heterosexual, pro-life, republicans as "pro-gun" and insist that advocacy of gun controls include describing gun owners as "demented and blood-thirsty psychopaths whose concept of fun is to rain death upon innocent creatures both human and otherwise"? While this may partially reflect mere cultural "hey... let's make fun of the pro-gun activists!" It also reflects on people's need to find the whipping child for few and far-between accidents. "Oh, Little Johnny shot his big brother Gilbert in the face... let's blame it on the parents who owned the gun in the first place." (Well that one is a toughie, but it happens ALL the time. Little Johnny should be extremely chastised and punished, and mom and dad need to do better things with their firearms... THEY ARE NOT TOYS.)
             Gun control: to bear arms, or not to bear arms, that is the true question. The controversy over the right to posses guns has only heightened since the September 11 attacks, and the country is pretty much divided. Anti-gun activists such as Rosie O'Donnell (and avid democrat, mind you) is blatantly proclaiming that owning guns is bad, and no one should do it. What is that woman's problem? Wait a second... don't her bodyguards have firearms on them while protecting her? Oh come on Rose, they can't be all that bad can they? It's people like her who give guns a bad name.
             A quick statistic: There are approximately two million defensive gun uses (DGU's) per year by law-abiding citizens. Also, the U.S. homicide rate reached a 30-year low of 6.3 per 100,000 in 1998. Though there is no justification for the killing of anyone, only when guns fall into the hands of irresponsible people do the statistics start to apply.
             The process for anyone to obtain a gun, legally that is, is extremely difficult and lengthy. Say you go to your local Wal-Mart, gun show, and...