"When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered, yes - remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education - make them hunters."

Henry David Thoreau, 1854


“A citizen who shirks his duty to contribute to the security of his community is little better than the criminal who threatens it.” - Robert Boatman


Tuesday, May 20, 2008

American gun lovers feeling under fire

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It is the one freedom we've got," says Newton, who owns 68 guns. "All the world's troubles are because people have had their firearms taken away from them, they have no way to protect themselves and they're left throwing rocks at people with guns."
More than 6,000 of the 4.3-million-member NRA heard from their only hope here Friday, but Republican John McCain was usually referred to by rank-and-file members as the lesser of two evils.
While Barack Obama is seen as a real threat – his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, is a positive abomination to those who want to protect the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

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