To address the logic Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

People buy fishooks to catch fish. If fishooks did not catch fish, people would not buy them to catch fish. People buy guns to kill people, if guns did not kill people, people would not buy them to kill people.

I'm a deer hunter and occasional bird hunter. I have done so since I was 14. I have yet needed more than three shots to take a deer in one shooting. I hunt water fowl and they have a gun plug of a three shot limit on a shot gun. I don't use an assult rifle to hunt deer. I have friends who have hand guns to take wildlife as per DNR rules. If you need a gun to shot more than five rounds for any type of hunting then I think you should not be out in the woods amongst us hunters because you are a danger to our safety. You certainly are not looking out for the other hunter. I believe any assult rifle and clips of more than 5 rounds should be banned on the streets and for hunting. I also believe the protective gear he had should be banned. The use of armor piercing bullets also should be banned. These items are out there only for the purpose to kill innocent people. Where are the rights of people who want restrictions imposed on these items? Come on NRA get your head out of your behind you are going to lose this fight and it will not be with an assult rifle.

That may be true but there is a flaw to your logic. If I can't use a hook I will use an arrow. If a man wants to kill another he will

629, you give full evidence of being another of the closed mind set who blithely and blindly follow the dictates of the Hollywood geniuses, the so-called "Major media", the theory-only based college professorial community, and Mayor Bloomberg. Until you have devoted some years of your life to the defense of your country and its freedoms, I assume you will want to remain in your closeted condition -- and out of contact with the reality and facts of life. Logic is based upon FACT, not upon philosophy. Nor are we talking about Aristophanes' "The Kingdom of the Birds" here. No comedy. I would be most appreciative if, in future, you would confine your high jumping to track meets. Gratsi and arividercci and andiamo.

Ok most of you here know that I am a first responder. I do not like going to these types of calls and I have gone to a number of them. I also am a hunter. And a firearms instructor. I will tell you up frot that I respect folk that do not own any guns and I believe that everyone should be at lest trained to know how to recognize what one is and how to protect it and others when one is found without its owner near. Please do not laugh I can show you working guns that you would never think we're a gun so that being said.

I enjoy the meat that I harvest. I also enjoy the time in Gods country when I'm hunting. I also hone my hunting skills when I'm in the woods with my camera too when I want to get those wildlife pictures but that is off topic. I will share the meat I get when I hunt. There are many people in this country that are having a hard time making ends meet so by giving some of my harvest away may help someone that really needs it.

Again to those of you that don't own firearms. I will ask a very serious question of you. It actually 2 questions. If the women in your lives and your self where in a situation that you where about to be raped and had to litterally fight for your life. Would you not want a gun to shoot the perp. In a life or death situation, I can tell you from expirence you will do whatever it will take to live. If you where being mugged by an armed mugger. In many cases of an armed confrontation, if the intended victim has a gun as well pulls it out the mere presence of that gun will significagently change the odds of your survival. However, if it does not then you better be able to follow through and know how to use it to defend yourself and your family as well as your property. I will also tell you that there are many states that have strict laws on how to engage or not engage a person in a life or death situation. And that is more important than wether or not I carry a gun.

To be totally honest in this situation the man was exstreamly dangerous. He is highly educated and wanted to kill innocent people. Even if he had not used a gun which he did not have to. He had other exsplosives in his apartment Some of them were made from everyday products that you can buy at any store. Do you want to have your floor cleaner registered to you every time you buy it? Seriously floor cleaners can be used for I'll purposes if someone wants to. The last thing that I will say for now is that he wanted to kill. He would have had the very same results even if he did not have any guns on him.

In the summer of 1964 when the Harlem riots threatened to spill over to my block on the edge of Harlem, I went to a sporting goods store and bought my first firearm, a 12 gauge, pump action, riot shotgun and loaded it with 00 buckshot. Having steeped myself in Holocaust memoirs, I was determined to fight to the death anyone breaking into my apartment.

The riot did not spill over and years later, after moving to rural Pennsylvania, I took a number of self-defense courses in which I learned that an AR15 semi-automatic rifle (misleadingly called an "assault rifle" by anti-gun propogandists) was a far better home defense weapon than a shotgun. Why? Lighter in weight, almost no recoil, easier to aim, larger capacity of ammo. So, to answer the question of why anyone would need a (misnamed) "assault rifle," the answer is to defend oneself against a home invasion.

I also have worked on a medic team and been to a shooting, man standing over victim with gun in hand. The right to bear arms must be preserved at all cost. You will never stop a "nut killer" from doing what he sets out to do. Guns, knifes, ball bats, golf clubs, bow and arrows, bombs, they will still do it if guns were banned. Victim lived!!!