I'd give them up to..
let's see my Nephew (or any kids I have)....
maybe my brother... or give one to a Wife..
But gee that's about it, unless the S was hitting the F and I tossed one to a friend and said COVER ME.
We are starting the phase of civil disobediance over our 2nd amendment rights in california.. until the supreme court decides to hear a significant case on the 2nd.. the legislators/bearucrats who are anti gun will keep trying to take/restrict our rights. But be aware.. if a case ever DOES get to the court.. we could lose there too.
Stay alert, stay informed, vote and write your representatives, convert your friends, join the nra and similar organizations.
We can't hope to win this fight if we each crawl into our collective bomb shelters and wait for judgement day.. then each shelter gets called a compound/militia hide out etc and can be dealt with quietly.. violently.
But if we ALL stick together.. publicly (and I am not talking about sedition or armed insurrection,though the 2nd essentially guarantees this RIGHT) they will find very quickly that they cannot win. You can kill us.. you cannot kill our ideas.
Spread the good word, be informative, be courteous, be reasonable when talking to those in the middle. We aren't going to convert the antis and they aren't gonna convert us... its the people in between who need our support, understanding and education to see things our way (for lack of a better way of saying it).
They have propoganda, we have propoganda. Our propoganda NEEDS to sound more reasonable than thiers (without mentioning the Un the trilateral commision, black helicoters or who is doing who at the white house). Read up on your federalist papers, your poor richard's almanac, your history. You'll sound a lot smarter than the latest anti spouting the latest rhetoric.
I will say this however.. at one time I considered the idea of banning all handguns in the US (BEAR WITH ME) but my thinking at the time was that wars/revolutiuons/insurrections are fought with RIFLES. I got on the bandwagon when the antis started taking our LONG GUNS. They don't want us to own anything, defend ourselves or hunt anything. Well then I'm NOT giving up ANYTHING. Handguns, Rifles, Shotguns. take em if you CAN.. I'll be as civily disobediant as Ghandi and King. Push me and I might even get militant. AS IS MY RIGHT. Freedom has a price. An unarmed man CAN stop a tank.. i've seen it happen. Talk about GUTS, talk about commitment, THAT is the kind of resolve we need to show.
The next revolution is NOT going to be fought with pistols, but It may be fought with shotguns and pipe bombs IF we don't start fighting it RIGHT now in our own homes, communities and nieghborhoods, though our words and deeds.
This is a fight we can win with words. If we choose the right words. Constitutaional ideals don't hold up well when compared to the image of a dead child. We need to learn to fight the picture the anti's paint of us, that we are irresponsible militia kooks who are begging for the chance to shoot somebody.
We (gunowners) are EVERYONE. We are doctors, lawyer, preists, rabbis, mullahs, laborers skilled and unskilled , secretaries, professionals, and activists. We are artists, programmers, engineers, politicians, craftsmen and midwives. We are healers and spiritualists and of overy race creed and religion. We are fathers and brothers and sons and mothers and daughters. We are THE PEOPLE.
We cannot let the anti's forget THAT.
Off my soapbox,
Dr.Rob