There is absolutely NOTHING WRONG with owning firearms.Whether out of stupidity, ignorance, or naivety, most leftists really do believe that firearms ownership is a "left versus right" issue. It is NOT.Every person has THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE.Every person has THE RIGHT TO DEFEND OTHERS.Possessing the contemporary arms to do so, IS PART OF THAT RIGHT.A historical case in point:Alan Berg, a leftist radio talk-show host from Colorado, recieved a number of death-threats from neo-nazis. Berg was brash, abbrasive, and controversial, which is what you have to be to succeed in particular talk-show venues. I myself would probably greatly disagree with Berg's political views, but in America, we all have a RIGHT to express ourselves, whether anyone agrees or not. NO ONE CAN STOP YOU FROM SPEAKING YOUR MIND.Due to the death-threats, Berg applied to the police for a permit to carry a pistol. THEY SAID NO. Guess what? The Aryan Nation KILLED Berg.Now, even if he had been armed, they still may have been able to murder him, ...or maybe he may have been successful in defending himself. Being armed, he at least had a chance.This example demonstates, in part, what our Second Amendment was meant for.There is an agenda behind every proposal to disarm private citizens. There is NO VALIDITY to any of the usual leftist propaganda cited arguing in favor of the disarmament of law-abiding citizens. All such leftist propaganda is logically de-bunked in Mr. Lapierre's recent book.Unfortunately, the anti-gun rabble WILL NOT listen. They very desparately WANT to believe the propaganda from their commisars, as all good communists do.Consider these FACTS:-Some people think "gun-control" is needed for "public safety":99% of all firearms in America are owned by responsible, private citizens who abide the law and are NO THREAT to anyone. The fact is, the anti-gun politicians are AFRAID that the specific demographic groups who possess guns won't comply with their prospective "politics". Hitler and Stalin had the same problem when they came to power.-Some people really want to believe that banning firearms will result in "less crime":In fact, in every country in the world, ...the vast majority of which DO NOT recognize a citizen's right to self-defense, and DO NOT ALLOW their citizens to keep any kind of weapon ...THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT IS ARMED TO THE TEETH! This is true even in nations under totalitarian rule. Revelation: criminals DON'T OBEY LAWS!The TRUTH, is that gun-banning is all about CONTROL of the LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN.-Some people, LEFTISTS IN PARTICULAR, think that "only the police and military should have guns":I have never known liberals to be supporters of the police or military. According to them: "the cops are racist" and the "military is a fascist organization". Why then, would they endorse a policy in which ONLY the police and military may keep arms?In fact, in many nations, the police and military are a tool of the state, whose major task is to suppress the citizenry, not necessarily law-enforcement or national-defense. In fact, a number of emminent statesmen such as Stalin, Lenin, Mao Tze Tung, Pol Pot, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Idi Amin (just to name a few) were quite aware of the advantages of just such an arrangement. Its rather easy to enforce your "policies" when the populace has no means to resist.Mao Tze Tung, said: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".-Some people think that you should depend on the police to protect you:In a city of a million people, do you really think a few hundred police-officers can magically appear to save you, PRECISELY at the time of an assault? Has this EVER happened? What if the police are already overwhelmed with previous calls, which is all too often in many urban areas? Often, even if the victim DID have time to call for help, the police arrive long after the crime was commited. Sometimes, only the corroner and forensic team can do anything at that point.ONLY YOU can be resonsible for your own safety. If you can't comprehend this, you are living in a fantastic delusion.THE TRUTH: Those politicians and activists who are so determined to disarm the law-abiding populace, have an agenda. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao did. They too, were very strong advocates of "gun-control". They too, stated it was for "public safety".