Just so you know, there are responsible gun owners out here who own guns simply for home protection. However, a gun alone does not always offer sufficient means of protection during a home invasion. And I agree that when you bring a gun into the mix, the situation immediately escalates. Therefore a gun should be used only as a last resort. I believe everyone should have a plan to first avoid and second protect him or herself, in case of a home invasion. Personally, I first lock all my windows and doors every night (avoidance). Second, I have two dogs, one a rott (avoidance and defense). Third, if an intruder makes it past my locks and dogs, I have my guns (defense). If I do hear an intruder in my home I have no plans to be a cowboy and chase them out guns blazing. That would not only be dangerous to my family and me but could have adverse legal ramifications as well. If say, I happened to shoot this person in the back as he was trying to run from my home, in most states, I would do some lengthy prison time. The best plan of defense, if you hear an intruder in your home, is to, with your gun, take up an easily defendable position (like your bedroom door way) and listen. If it's safe to, move on to the next closest defendable position and listen. Once you have reached a point where you can defend yourself and your loved ones with "relative" ease, call out "You're in my house, I have a gun and I've called the police." This is considered a "Reasonable Man Test." If it were a reasonable man who entered your home, he would get the hell out as quickly as possible and would most likely make a lot of noise doing so. If you do not hear this person/persons rapidly exiting your home, it would be safe to assume that this person/persons can not be considered reasonable, and that you should stay put ready to defend yourself (with your gun) and wait for the police to arrive.

I may sound rather paranoid, but it is extremely naive to think, in this day and age "that it can't happen to me." Why do you think the events of 9/11 took place? Because too many Americans think "it can't happen to me." "Our government and local authorities will protect me and us." Obviously they can't. And as a result of what happened on 9/11 many Americans feel that they must now protect themselves. Which is how they should have felt before 9/11. As far as gun ownership, it's better to have one and not need it, than to need one and not have it.

To really understand what's going on in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia today with regard to civilian weapons ownership and self defence, we need to see it from the globalist perspective.

Under the fast-approaching, liberty-shattering 'New World Order' so beloved by Tony Blair, both of the Bushes, and the US and UK political elite, there will be NO personal weapons of any kind permitted, nor any 'culture of violence' [i.e. no potential future resistance].

For a good introduction to the elite's ultimate goals in this, from a U.S. perspective, see "GUN CONTROL AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER' at http://www.survivalistskills.com/nwa.htm as well as 'OPERATION GARDEN PLOT' at http://www.survivalistskills.com/GDNPLOT.HTM and 'THE PLANNED US AND CANADIAN CONCENTRATION CAMP AND DETENTION CENTRE PROGRAM' at http://www.survivalistskills.com/camps.htm.

The rational and normal mind recoils from the idea that a nation's leaders might be at perpetual war with their own people in pursuit of some higher, global goal. But read "The U.S. Public Warms To The Idea Of Civilian Concentration Camps" at http://www.survivalistskills.com/CONCAMP.HTM [This is a long page, slow to load, but well worth it. Be sure to see the quotes and astonishing photographs at the end of the article!], and reflect on how consistently this occurs, and how easily the general public are pursuaded to applaud and agree with their own loss of rights.

[for a similar perspective on the same process at work in Canada and the UK, see "How Canada Lost Its Liberties And Freedoms - And Few Cared!" at http://www.survivalistskills.com/CANLIB.HTM and "How Britain Legislated Away 2,000 Years Of Rights And Freedoms" at http://www.survivalistskills.com/UKLIB.HTM]

Still unpersuaded? "TRAGEDY AND HOPE", by Professor Carroll Quigley, is a virtual 'blueprint' of the political elite's game-plan for accomplishing their 'New World Order' by guile - and by force, where need be. Read the huge array of quotations from political and other leaders on that page, and ask yourself whether they have not already accomplished much of what they need to achieve in order to turn the world into a giant 'global plantation', where they are the unresisted masters.

There's a substantial archive of other fascinating and invaluable 'New World Order Intelligence Update' articles on the New World Order at http://www.survivalistskills.com/sect22.htm and archived also at http://www.rarehistorybooks.com/NWOLINKS.HTM. The 'NWOIU' site itself is currently down for substantial re-construction, but these archived articles are well worth reading.

One extraordinarily interesting page, at http://www.survivalistskills.com/GUNQUOTE.HTM, provides a large number of famous and favourable quotations on the citizen's right to keep and bear arms AND a warning from Britain on the results of surrendering that right!

All of us will ultimately be the victims of this global drive to eliminate the means - and even the very thought - of self defence.