All of the idiots who say that guns keep women from getting raped piss me off. Case in point: ME. I was first raped at age 4. Obviously, I was too young to own a gun. Second time: age 19. Again, too young to own a gun, and it wouldn't have done any good, as it was a case of date rape.

When I was 22, a man broke into my apartment, pointed a gun at me and told me not to scream. I was in the kitchen heating up a small pot of soup. The first thought that entered my mind was, this guy's gonna rape me...I'll fight and die before I let that happen again. I threw the pot of boiling soup in the jerk's face, he screamed, and ran out. No gun necessary.

To the gun lovers: if you believe that guns prevent rape, then I suggest you train infants to use and carry guns (Pampers with built-in holsters!) since even infants can be raped. Then make it mandatory for all women to carry loaded guns when they go out on dates.

Of course, some kids will end up killing themselves, or other kids, or maybe even their parents, but I guess that's OK with the gun lovers, since they're PROTECTING THEMSELVES. Right??

Since the main argument from the pro-gun crowd is usually that the citizenry needs to have their own arms in case the need arises to overthrow the government, does anyone find it at all ironic that the only governments in recent memory that might have led some people to call for their removal were Republican?
I don't think anyone ever promoted the idea of an armed revolution against the Kennedy government, although it's thought by some that the Republicans played at least a minor role in the "mini armed revolution" that took him out of power. I don't think Jimmy Carter ever pissed off or frightened anyone to the point where armed revolution was brought up. The Republicans tried to overthrow the Clinton government (with the Monica scandal), but were ultimately unsuccessful in doing it until the election rolled around. The poulace might have been disappointed with Clinton, but they never feared for their lives or their freedom.
I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican, I'm a Canadian, and while it's been suggested to me on fark in the past that since I don't live in the U.S. I should STFU about anything that concerns them, I still must say that the only U.S. government in my lifetime I would ever think might need to be overthrown by the people is the Bush government, who have already made frightening changes to the U.S. systyem of government in order to tighten their hold on the nation's politics, and made frightening changes to the privacy and rights of their people in the name of post-9/11 protection.
Democratic governments don't have much of a history of going to war, and are generally in the camp of non-violence, so I can't see any need to overthrow them, since it likely won't be a amtter of life and death, and can therefore wait until the next election year. Republicans are more likely to own weapons, and historically, Republican governments are a little less squeamish about the use of force, in whatever form that might take.
So if the only government that might need to be overthrown is a Republican one, this revolt will likely never happen, since most gun owners are Republican, and usually agree with the line the government is selling them, as is the case today.