Terrorists can come into this country and buy an AK47?

[Preechr]

Yes, because we have a long, rich history of Prohibitions working in this country. That's why there are no illegal drugs anymore, because the prohibition we placed on them 60 years ago, though it was rough at the beginning, eventually worked out and drugs became impossible to find.

You need to factor in for the fact that America is simply a much larger country than either Japan (an island) or the UK (another island) and we are in the uneviable position of having to guard many hundred times more border than they do, with many, many more airports as well.

I bought my gun because I was worried that my fiance (at that time) was spending a lot of time at home alone, recovering from cancer, and needed the extra protection from a worst case scenario. I still own it, and have never actually fired it myself. It's a necessary evil, but necessary all the same.

BTW, automatic weapons being banned in this country has nothing at all to do with the current assault weapons ban. That's what makes Kerry's statement last night so outrageous. He starts off with, "I'm a hunter..." as if that buys him the right to say whatever the hell he wants. It's the same thing as if he were to say, "I love butt-sex with other men..." and then "all Homosexuals are abominations to God and every one of them likes to abduct children and do evil things with them."