Preserve our right to keep and bear arms so that we may continue to be a republic Blessed with Liberty, or we can allow the government to disarm us so that we may lose our liberty, lose our republic
A few years ago, during a Murrieta City Council Meeting, a woman, while testifying against the city's desire to change its ordinance with the intent of attracting an indoor gun range, said, "We don't want a shooting range in our city. It will attract people who own guns, and we don't want that kind of criminal element in our city."
Her opinion was based on the belief that all gun owners are dangerous, and capable of acting criminally. She might have even thought that was the reason for being a gun owner in the first place, that deep down all gun owners bought their guns with the intent of eventually using that firearm for nefarious means. In her mind, guns equal danger, and guns equal crime, and therefore to eliminate the danger of gun violence, and gun crime, one must eliminate the guns.