Please explain how the right to defend myself from someone trying to k**l me is a bad thing. Now explain to me how it is ok for someone who arbitrarily decides to k**l an unwanted baby because she would not use birth control or abstain from sex.

It is you whose mind is not set straight. I have a natural right to protect myself and mine. When are you going to defend the rights of the unborn and stop trying to revoke the natural right to defend myself.

You may want to say gun ownership escalates the problem. I say you are correct, it does. When the criminal will use a gun in an illegal manner, I should be able to use a gun in a legal manner to make sure the criminal loses. Take away my ability to defend myself from someone who blatantly disobeys the law and you make me a victim. I would rather be a live person who could have been a victim and not a dead victim.

When you figure out that the criminal is NOT the victim, but is in fact disobeying the law, you will understand from where we come.