Ken Fortenberry wrote in message y.com...
Tom Gibson wrote:

I could have guessed that you would be an anti-gun kind of guy. ...

Yeah, you could have, but you'd be wrong. I own several guns myself,
and I'm a card-carrying member of Pheasants Unlimited, but I've never
needed an Uzi to kill a pheasant and neither do you.

Sorry for the faulty perception. After reading various posts in this
thread, perhaps you have a point. The NRA can be a tad extreme at
times, OTOH, so can their opponents. Hangun Control Inc. is *at
least* as bad as the NRA.

OTOH, I'll agree with Mr. Carter, too. The 2nd Amendment has little
to do with pheasants. You may choose to pooh-pooh the concept of an
armed citizenry as the best defense against tyranny, but I do not.
IMO, anyone who thinks that the gov't is their friend has bought The
Big Lie.

As for your 'if you want to shoot at people you have to join a well
regulated militia' comment, I believe that the various governments of
these United States have more or less outlawed (or at least given up
on) the concept of a well-regulated militia other than the National
Guard--which is a far cry from what the 2nd Amendment refers to.
Frankly, I doubt that any of us actually *want* to shoot at
people--but I wonder which of us *would* if the situation called for
it?

I'll also agree with Wolfgang that the list of organizations whose
blacklist I'd like to be on is long indeed, and the groups he mentions
specifically are a good start.

Tom G
hunting rabbits in the AM