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We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don't need to be in conflict.

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.

It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.

I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?