dear michel thank you for correctly reading the constitution. i have been saying this for years. if a person feels the necessity to own a gun then let them join the state militia or national guard i would never allow any fire arm in my house.you can't have an accident with a gun if there is not a gun in the house. my personal knowledge of guns is 1 - one of my moms brother-in-law after a party decided to scare hisbrother-in-law Tiny. outcome Sammy went by Tiny and wife's bedroom and rattled the window.. Tiny half asleep heard the noise -thought it was a burgler and aimed his gun and fired. thankfully bullet hit Sammy in the arm and didn't kill him. Tiny got rid of his gun . 2 - one of our boys at age7 was visiting his aunt in las vegas. he played with a boy next door and suddenly came running to his aunt and said that the boy invited our kenny into his house to show our boy something. he took kenny into a closet and climbed up on some boxes and showed our boy his daddy's gun bragging that daddy was a guard. kenny knew we told them never to touch any gun. thank fully he told auntie who then went to speak to neighbors who were in the house and didn't even hear the kids. the father said he didn't realise his boy knew where re kept the gun on a top shelf. 3 - a neighbor of ours that thought he was quite a hunter and laughed at jack cause jack wouldn't go hunting. after a successful hunt when friend walked into his yard the gate bumped his rifle which he must have been pulling it along the barrell because he shot himself in his butt. of course i told him he got what he deserved for being so stupid. 4 - a 20 year old son of my cousin killed himself. his father actually bought him the gun and never told the boys mother that he had given the boy a few lessons. the young man had been upset when he spoke to his mother so she told him she would drive over to see him.she had car trouble and got there about an hour late to find her boy dead. she called the police thinking a burglar had done it. the police said it looked like suicide but his mother insisted he didn't have a gun. his father came from out of town and accused the police of not investigating a crime. took a year before the parents to accept that it was suicide. very sad case. to this day i still feel the same. i don't say guns should be totally outlawed. if you need a gun so be it but stay out of my house with it. we have lost too many young people from guns something must be done. parents must be held responsible for the crimes of their children and also be punished with them when their kids cause harm or loss of life. okay thats my soap box speech why isn't is easier to spread love instead of hate is beyond me. love connie > The Constitution, according to my reading, clearly stipulates that the > MILITIA may bear arms, not individuals....not even if you have PD. > Love > Michel >