Guess we'll have to close this thread - no one is qualified as a lawyer to have an opinion on the law or the constitution. And no one here is currently going to trial for violating a gun law so as to prove they are willing to risk their life and liberty to stand by their convictions.
If only my cousin who was wounded in Vietnam, my father who was wounded in Korea, my uncle who died in WWII, my great uncle who died in WWI, and my distant relatives who fought in the Civil War, were available to post here, maybe they could have an opinion.
But us common folk, who work to feed and shelter our families, who pay our taxes, who stand ready to serve our country in time of need, who work for political reform, who have the responsibility of ensuring that the liberties our families bled and died for are maintained - our opinions and convictions don't really count.
You see it is the present laws that matter, not all that rhetoric by our founding fathers (that they fought and died for) about inalienable rights, not the rhetoric of the Bill of Rights, not that rhetoric about governments being instituted to secure inalienable rights and when they become destructive to those ends the right and duty to abolish them, and not that rhetoric about suffering a long chain of abuses and not lightly seeking to overthrow government.
I guess I should apologize for the temerity to even think that a man has a right to defend his life and the lives of his family using the most, and oft times the only, effective means available, a firearm. Especially if there is a law against it.
Except that now that I have thought about it, I don’t apologize, because laws that prohibit a man from defending himself or his family are shameful and repugnant to anyone who has a shred of human decency and who believes at all in the sanctity of human life. That is the truth and it remains the truth whether a man openly flaunts such a law, covertly flaunts such a law, complies with the law but works to change it, or is a coward and says and does nothing about it.
