[Boomer One]

I think we should have a national “Patriot Week” where every financially able person believing in the First and Second Amendments would buy a gun, preferably an AR style rifle. The objective would be to show national support for the Second Amendment and “black rifles”. Perhaps the spike in gun sales would remind our representatives of why the Second Amendment was written and show the strength of our commitment for same. Somehow I think the numbers of guns sold would far exceed the number of anti-gun activists laying in the aisles of Publix.

[dayglored]

Good idea, I like the thought.... but I believe that most American gun owners would just as soon NOT have anybody else know they've got one (or many). Professionals aside, I think the majority of us would rather be private about what we have, and why we have it. Personal protection, defense against tyranny, even hunting, are things we don't necessarily want to stand on a street corner and make our opinions about and personal commitment to, a matter of public record.

Granted, that's not how it necessarily SHOULD be. Owning, caring for, properly using and practicing with, a firearm should be a matter of personal and civic pride. Just saying, I think the public media anti-firearm bias won't be overcome easily or soon. Attitudes aren't changed in a week, or a month...