When it is illegal to own and carry weapons, only the criminals will own and carry weapons.

To bad this guy's dead.

The problem being, not many people employ them of their own free will. Too many people have become lazy to the point that they let, no, need people to tell them what to think, what to believe, what God to worship, and what is right and wrong.

Ray, If you wanna ban your kids from reading something, then by all means, do so. If you wanna ban me from reading something, you got another thing commin.

I picture paradise as all knowledge already recieved. By that I mean all knowledge of EVERYTHING in the Multiverse. But for that to be paradise, everything important would already have happened and there would be nothing left to worry about.

Like I said before, "Free Will". If we don't let ALL ideas in, who gets to pick what is good or bad? Let me decide that for myself. If you don't like it, don't read it.

And who do you suppose would be the ones to choose the books? Better to keep people ignorant than to introduce them to the opinions of only one or a small group of people.

This quote should read "To limit the press is to control a nation..."

Let the conservative Christians come and disagree. I remember a little gift God gave man. Some call it the greatest gift of all. I call it "Free Will".

I agree with Mike and Archer. When you take away the law abiding citizen's guns, the only people that will have guns are the criminals and the government. I don't trust either to protect me or my family. As a matter of fact, I'll go as far as to say that every law abiding citizen should at least be TRAINED to use a variety of firearms. It is a statistical fact that areas where citizens are allowed to carry concealed weapons have the lowest crime rates. Look at DC, guns are outlawed all together and the murder rate is one of the highest in the Nation!