Who May Own A Gun?

I am not a gun owner.  I am not a gun lover. I am not a member of the NRA.  However, I believe in freedom.  Gun ownership is a right.  It is a right that needs to  continue to be a right  in this great nation.  There are laws that govern the ownership of firearms.  They relate to age,sanity and previous law offenses.  Yes, there are some people who should not own guns.  But law-abiding citizens should not be deprived of gun ownership. Here are a few quotes with which I am in agreement.  The last sentence of Jeffrey Snyder's quote sums it up quite adequately.  RD

"It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life." Charles de Montesquieu

"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry


"But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding."
Jeffrey R. Snyder