I hate to think that I may have started an ongoing debate.

The fact of the matter remains that anyone willing to make a compromise is on the wrong side of this issue.

Look at the recent bill for the instant background checks. McCarthy and others have called this a step in the right direction. Every one of them has legislation that they would like to introduce while they are on a role. Most, if not all, of these individuals have been on the record stating that the ultimate goal is the complete ban of firearms. "You cannot throw these people bone."

For all of you knife lovers (an affliction I have), just listen to this logic. I am sorry for singling out part of this post:
"In Canada where I live (Prince Albert Saskatchewan) we have a violent crime rate 10 times the Canadian average. Most of it is knives but their are plenty of guns as well. I am not a big fan of handguns as a weapon. They are usually used at ranges a knife or hawk would work just as well. It just makes it physically and
physiologically easier than sticking a blade into someone."

As I stated before, the general rule is a 21ft distance for a knife attacker to be lethal. This distance has the potential to make the knife attacker lethal, but almost every time that attacker will end up dead when facing than "only ones." To think that in any case you may be better-off with a knife than a firearm when your life is on the line is ludicrous.

Even if you feel more comfortable with a knife, look at what has happened in Australia and the UK. Firearms are only the first step. Criminals adapt quickly and before you know it... The knives you love make you a criminal. That slippery slope is fast and furious.

"Liberty" lovers have to band together and not make any compromise. Any compromise you are willing to make is risking not only my individual rights, buy more importantly my life.

Please in the future, I would like people to look at the definitions of, and be able to distinguish"

1. Liberty vs. Freedom
2. Right vs. Privilege