While I can agree, to a point, with how you handled your wife and daughter wanting to learn to shoot, telling them to consider everyone they meet as someone they might have to kill is too much. And reinforcing that by asking them over and over if they have thought about killing a person is probably not helping. I have asked people to think on whether or not they could take a life IN DEFENSE OF THEIR OWN when asked for advice or training, but I limit it to criminals only. And I would never dream of asking ANYONE if they had thought of killing someone, not even a criminal, after that first time, to me that smacks of mental abuse. I wonder how you would feel if you were required to go through this yourself?

For every incident the anti-gun zealots spout, the pro-gun advocates can spout millions. No kidding. Two million plus are the estimated number of times every year that people defend their lives by way of a firearm. The numbers alone show how wrong the anti-gun zealots are in their anti-gun stance.

A few rather simple, but valid, observations. One, there are far more Christians than Atheists. Two, If the law requires equal opportunity to join, why don't Christians simply flood the Atheist organizations with Christian members? Since they would be in the majority they could simply out vote the Atheist members when they propose doing anything anti-religious. Three, if Atheists want to force their way into religious groups shouldn't we welcome them? After all, Christians could make it their goal to convert the Atheists. I'm sure that having every individual Christian, in a Church or organization, take turns preaching the Gospel to them, without letup, will encourage them to stay and might even convert some or all of them.

This is outrageous. When will we the people take back our government and insist it follow the simple 'of the people by the people for the people' ideal of what our government is supposed to be? The first step will be to vote the current administration, and the Democratic Congressmen and Senators that support it, out of office! Only then can we work towards taking back some of our land that should never have been taken away in the first place.

If we no longer have the right to defend ourselves, even when at risk of grave bodily harm or even death, how can we claim to be free? We can't. We are no longer free, but slaves to every criminal that attacks us, and every government employee that places the rights of criminals over the rights of law abiding citizens forced to defend themselves. Our government is supposed to protect the law abiding from criminals, but the liberals who have infiltrated our government have decided that criminals are a protected class with more rights than the law abiding citizens they are sworn to protect and defend. When will America wake up and take back our freedom and our government? The coming election is the last chance we have to save our nation.