"I say all guns are good guns. There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be an armed nation. Period." This rather bold statement was made by the award winning actor Charlton Heston and current President of the NRA, or National Rifle Association. The NRA is a special interest group known by many. Its members are stereotyped to be a group of truck-driving, pompous, huntsmen. Indeed this is partially true, as 97% of all NRA members are suburban men (Lacayo 20). Because the organization is a more Domestic Blend, it is a surprising fact that the NRA is a powerful lobbyist organization. As a lobbyist organization, the NRA has a current main objective of protecting American citizen's rights, to possess and operate a firearm, from being violated by gun control laws. One of the NRA's main weapons in this crusade is the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. The amendment's translation in the eyes of the NRA and many American citizens clearly protects the individual rights of all citizens to possess and operate firearms. This would easily make any and all gun control laws unconstitutional, and therefore illegal. This translation, however, is not accepted by all people. One group of people not excepting it is the United States Government. They believe that the amendment guaranteed no right for individual citizens to possess weaponry, but merely allowed for the government to form and maintain an armed service (IE. United States Army, US. Navy). Because of the different translations of our constitution, gun control can be viewed by different people in different ways (Lacayo 20). Some of the many gun control bans and laws which are under constant debate from the NRA are those pertaining to self-defense. In several states, like Texas, the law requires that people must retreat and be pursued by the intruder before any means of force could be taken upon the would-be attacke...