Reply #10: Not "everybody," just mentally competent adults with clean records,

[benEzra]

after passing a background check at the point of sale--and the guns have to be non-automatic, non-sound-suppressed small arms under .51 caliber (except shotguns) that meet the barrel length and overall length requirements of the National Firearms Act.

The beauty of living in a free country is that I'm allowed to make life choices that you don't agree with, and you're allowed to make life choices that I don't agree with, and as long as we both abide by the law then we just have to agree to disagree. You are perfectly free to choose not to own guns. A lot of us choose differently. That's what choice is all about.

Roughly the same percentage of the population (20%) supports banning guns as supports bringing back alcohol Prohibition. Neither is going to happen, thank goodness (and no, I don't drink).