Guns are useful for protection from those who want to kill us and control us.

Guns are preferable to the terrible up close and deadly personal ok a knife fight. 

If my understanding is correct, I disagree with Mr. Cookes premis here. m/r



How the Right Could Lose Its Way on Guns | National Review Online

By Charles C. W. Cooke 9-29-14

“Bring your gun to work” laws and their ilk are a perversion of the principles that got us here. 

In Florida earlier this year, Republican majorities in both houses passed an NRA-backed bill that prohibited private insurers “from denying coverage or increasing rates based on customers owning guns or ammunition.” Demonstrating a comprehensive inability to grasp the nature of individual rights, state representative Matt Gaetz told theTampa Bay Tribune in April that “Floridians have a constitutional right to bear arms,” and that, in consequence, “even one case of insurers taking action because of gun ownership is ‘too much.’” “How much discrimination based on the exercise of a constitutional right is tolerable?” Gaetz asked. Oh dear.

Per the Tribune, the bill was designed to apply

to property and automobile insurers and add language to part of state law that deals with “unfair discrimination.” As an example, the bill would seek to block insurers from refusing to issue policies because of customers’ lawful ownership or possession of firearms. Similarly, it would bar them from charging “unfairly discriminatory” rates based on gun ownership or possession.

Shamefully, Republican governor Rick Scott signed the measure into law.

[The law, unfortunately, was necessary. Guns have saved more lives and property, including mine. Interrogatory determination of gun ownership invades privacy way too far! m/r]

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