David Codrea from 'The War on Guns' has a link to a Japanese student survey.....

What follows is my comment left on The War on Guns:

Well, apparently they had enough of our answers, as the link no longer works.

This is how I answered their 'Questionaire';

Japanese student survey, and the answers -

Do you agree with private gun ownership?

"Yes"

Why do you agree/ disagree with the previous question?

Because I believe gun ownership an intregal part in maintaining freedom against tyranny in government. As well as having the ability to thwart any attack on myself or loved ones. Not to mention the ability of defending my country against foreign invaders.

(Like the Dec. 7th, 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor for instance - interjected here, for your viewing pleasure, not on the survey ;)

Do you think it is possible to co-exsist with guns?

"Yes"

Why did you think so? (Notice the use of did, rather than 'do' - subtilty on their part?) :(
Please tell your opinion."

The gun is merely an inanimate object. If you use the same type training, as involved in learning to drive a vehicle, you lose the 'fear of the unknown' and see it for what it really is - a tool. Granted, the main intent of implementation of the 'tool' is to repel attack, (inflicting harm on an invader to keep them from advancing their attack). But a tool is what it is nonetheless. Even though the 'main intent' of its use has been oft perverted and used for offensive purposes.
To advocate the removal of the gun as a tool, somewhat has the odor of 'control'. Gun Control has been used by every megalomaniacal 'dictator' in the last century. As a means of pursuing their evil intent with less internal damage to their 'cause'. Chairman Mao, Hitler and Stalin alone used 'Gun Control' as a means to murder over FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE.
This spells out clear enough for me, personally, as to the reason WHY a citizen should ALWAYS be armed!
People have always used weapons as a means of inflicting harm or death on one another. If you take away guns, they will revert to swords. Take away swords, they'll revert to arrows. Take away arrows, they'll revert to fire. Take away fire, they'll revert to rocks.Where does the list end? Shall we be left with a world that is completely stripped bare of the possible source of anything that may cause harm?"