Do not allow anyone to divide us and rule. You don't have to have an interest in specific types of firearms or like specific groups of gun owners but you MUST support them. Fail to give aid to your allies in the fight for the preservation of our rights and those rights will be taken from us piecemeal. People confronted by muggers or threatened with rape or other abuse sometimes eliminate the threat with judicious use of force. Such use, more often than not, consists of a mere demonstration of willingness to resist.
Human predators tend to go for passive prey.
And, based on the disastrous Prohibition of the 1920s, we already know what would happen if guns are outlawed . At best, their efforts would shift the balance of arms in favor of career criminals and government agencies. As history has shown amply, neither group is to be trusted. We can start by acquiring arms and learning how to use them. We can also teach others .