Why I believe in the right of the general public to own military-pattern firearms.

Because no Nazi wants to be the one to deliver the midnight knock on the door of an armed Jew.

Yes, that is a metaphor. It is a metaphor for any minority group.

Consider that it is the Republicans who are the most aggressive defenders of the American public's right to keep and bear arms. Consider that it is they who, in the backward world of Leftist "gay death camp" paranoia, would be delivering that knock on the door. Do you really think they would do that, having (in their own perfect world) enabled that target population to arm itself to the teeth?

The ability of a vulnerable minority group to arm itself and give its aggressors a thorough beating is as old as history - the Book of Esther (for those who bother to read the Bible any more) offers the perfect example. Which leads to my second bolded point, widely attributed and almost certainly as widely paraphrased:

Only a tyrant fears an armed population.

I have to ask of the gun-control advocates in the United States: "What do you fear? And why?" I do not think they can point to Sandy Hook and other such atrocities with any conviction - murder with firearms is a daily occurrence in many places in the United States, but it seems to me that far too dim and limited a spotlight is cast (if at all) on who is shooting whom, and with what (e.g. illegally-obtained firearms). It's very easy to wave your arms when twenty little middle-class kids are killed all at once in the same place, but not so easy to drum up outrage when the killings are occurring on a regular basis, far from you, among people with whom you would never dream of associating (inner-city youths who are part of gangs). Where are THEY getting their guns?

I cannot and will not defend progressive restrictions on the ownership of firearms by law-abiding persons as being either an honest or a moral response to the actions of singular maniacs, however horrific those actions may be. 

It is the punishment of the innocent for the crimes of the guilty. It is unjust and hypocritical. 

Justice is the punishment of the guilty for their own crimes.

ALLOW ME TO MAKE ONE THING VERY, VERY CLEAR. DESPITE THE DATE ON THIS POST, IT IS NOT - AND WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE - AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE. I DO NOT MAKE JOKES ABOUT THINGS LIKE THIS, AND I NEVER WILL.