To start with it is "Mr President" to you.
Second, If you bothered to listen, his position has been evolvong for years. You probable missed that on Faux News.

Good set of facts, but you left out one very important one. During the American Revolution, every man who took up arms against the English King, was mostly a hunter. There were some Colonial Troops, but the militia did the hard and dirty fighting, with squirrel rifles. During the battles, not one man realized he was fighting against the most organized professional army in the world. In the U.S. today we consider the Reserve Forces, and National Guard the militia. But, should a enemy of the U.S. attempt to land on our shores, beware, those millions of hunters, with deer rifles, squirrel guns, and pistols will meet them at the shore. Do all you folks realize the U.S. is now invaded by our own lawless citizens. Crime is out of control in every community. Every Law Enforement Orginization is cutting back on budgets for policemen, cars, guns, and even the jails. You cannot count on the police to be there for you when something happens. Just for example, what would YOU do if someone kicked down your door, demanded YOU, your wife and children lie on the floor, and demand money, jewels, anything, with a gun on you and threaten you with death. This has happened here, in my city, New Orleans. It's time to gather your balls, put on your big boy or big girl pants, buy, and learn to use a gun from a qualified instructor, shoot it often, apply and aquire a Concealed Carry Permit for the State you live in, take the courses, and learn what its all about. Pay attention to the instructor, it is not a joke. When you walk out of the CC permit class you will understand the when, and where you can draw your weapon, you will have to qualify with your weapon. Youi will learn about the "Castle Law" and when it applys to you, and your family. Cost, about $300 for a good self protection hand gun, and about $125 for your classes, cheap insurance. Only you can be responsable for your own safety.

I live in Aurora, CO. Cinema16 is my local theater. My wife and I watched Spiderman in theater 9 (where the gunman struck on Thursday night) just 4 days before.

I think those who want private citizens to have automatic weapons whould someday face up to their neighbors being shot and maimed by one of these devices designed for MILITARY use (remember when the NRA defended the use of automatic weapons against deer because it was inhuman to only wound with a single shot!!??)

Shame on you insensitive louts who defend the right to own automatic weapons.

Glenn Runyan
Aurora, CO

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.

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

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.