Here is an interesting statistic chart on gun ownership as percent of population by state:
http://usliberals.about.com/od/Electi...

States with Extremely High Populations of Gun Owners(more than 50%)
1. Wyoming - 59.7%
2. Alaska - 57.8%
3. Montana - 57.7%
4. South Dakota - 56.6%
5. West Virginia - 55.4%
6. Mississippi - 55.3%
6. Idaho - 55.3%
6. Arkansas - 55.3%
9. Alabama - 51.7%
10. North Dakota - 50.7%
States with High Populations of Gun Owners
11. Kentucky - 47.7%
12. Wisconsin - 44.4%
13. Louisiana - 44.1%
14. Utah - 43.9%
14. Tennessee - 43.9%
16. Oklahoma - 42.9%
16. Iowa - 42.9%
18. South Carolina - 42.3%
19. Kansas - 42.1%
20. Vermont - 42.0%
21. Missouri - 41.7%
21. Minnesota - 41.7%
23. North Carolina - 41.3%
24. Maine - 40.5%
25. Georgia - 40.3%
States with Median Populations of Gun Owners
26. Oregon - 39.8%
27. Indiana - 39.1%
28. Nebraska - 38.6%
29. Michigan - 38.4%
30. Texas - 35.9%
31. Virginia - 35.1%
32. New Mexico - 34.8%
33. Colorado - 34.7%
33. Pennsylvania - 34.7%
35. Nevada - 33.8%
36. Washington - 33.1%
37. Ohio - 32.4%
38. Arizona - 31.1%
39. New Hampshire - 30.0%
States with Below Median Populations of Gun Owners
40. Delaware - 25.5%
41. Florida - 24.5%
42. California - 21.3%
42. Maryland - 21.3%
44. Illinois - 20.2%
45. New York - 18%
46. Connecticut - 16.7%
47. Rhode Island - 12.8%
48. Massachusetts - 12.6%
49. New Jersey - 12.3%
50. Hawaii - 6.7%

Pick your favorite place to resist confiscation.
Better yet, put up a fence between America and the bottom 10 states. Bet there would be a lot of criminals who would emmigrate to those states for the "business" opportunity.

As I understand it and I think it was Jefferson or maybe Washington said that reason for the second amendment was to give the people the right to bear arms against a repressive government, not for militia purposes specifically. As I see it we need the guns more than ever since the government has become more and more repressive.

The gun argument is something that politicians try to use when they're getting something over on us (they'll bring back the gun control argument to keep the news cycle busy when they're pulling the wool over our eyes on something else). This is no different than the smoking argument. If smoking is SO bad for you, and now they're pushing how bad SECOND HAND smoke is so bad for you, yet they never try to ban cigarettes? Why??? They're money makers: Cigarette taxes bring in all sorts of revenue to the states. If they are SO deadly, why haven't they banned them like they've banned so many drugs by the use of the FDA? Why hasn't your local health department taken the initiative to eliminate them? Follow the money people.. These arguments are what the "government" use to keep us lemmings busy. Why do you think that there has not been cures for most of the diseases we've been working on the past 1/2 century? There's no money in the cure, only money in the RESEARCH... Nobody wants the money to get cut off. If we go after the guns, it will take money that the special interests don't want to part with.

Repeal of the 2nd Amendment, would automatically preface the repeal of the others, 1 through 10 in any immediate manner that the Politicians found imperative.
Our governance has already degenerated from a Democratic Republic to a Democratic Social Oligarchy.

The media never seems to question anyone on anything. Today it seems that anyone can say anything about anything and half the population will believe it, period. If they were required to verify the facts on each and every story perhaps we could move on. When a politician gets out there and can say anything that comes to mind he/she should be held accountable to verify the facts before opening his/her mouth, period. It seems our politicians and law enforcement don't follow the law anymore, perhaps because we, the people, don't hold our politicians accountable anymore.

Point taken on gun control, guns do not kill people, people kill people. As far as I can tell everything presented here is verifiable. NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET https://www.youtube.com/embed/pELwCqz...

Gauntlet indeed

Regarding FFA`s stat chart: I would guess a more descriptive title would be " ...gun ownership by State as percent of population that admitted to gun ownership" Either that, or all 24.5% of Floridians that are counted live in my County. Did I mention I feel very secure in my County?

If they want to throw the gauntlet down be ready for rivers of blood and martyrs in every state. I'm sure Texas and Arizona gun owners will not go quietly into the night. They will own the night! History tells us that the Civil War was an awful carnage. The govt. trys to take away our Guns whether through subterfuge or trying to repeal the 2nd Amendment it will culminate in Civil War 2.0 which will cause states to seceed from the Union.

From my understanding the second amendment was to allow citizens to protect themselves from and to rise up against an unjust government like the British at the time. THATS the reason for the second amendment. If the government wants us to give up our guns, they should give up theirs at the same time. It has little to do with protecting me in my home really. I rely on my two pit bulls for that. Prevention is a lot more efficient than shooting someone and getting sued or hailed for it

Don't give the b-----ds ideas.

the gun-control and gun-abolishment advocates have a problem:::
they know that they can't make the change directly, so they chew
and chew at it with small bites -- convincing the kids and closing off
public parks and the like -- to make it happen slowly....... .
like the slow progressive take-over of the u.s. which
began with Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
and continues to this day.......
with Liz Warren and Hillary and Bernie and BHO. -- j
.

When do I hide my PC, TV and my guns in the neighboring woods (after checking the weather report), trash my house, inwardly break open the easiest window for a burglar to climb in through and report a robbery?
What would make me resort to such extreme measures?
It would be on the news.

a gun is property..Locke & Hobbes established the rights of man(woman) as the right to life, liberty, & property...no further argument is constructive in a rational discussion....rule #1...do not argue with a crazy person or collection of crazy persons (i.e...govt)

I do not understand why team Obama hasn't proposed taking one model city, say Chicago, imposing whatever draconian steps are necessary to confiscate every gun in civilian hands, searching every vehicle, train, and plane entering the city, and then after one year proudly proclaiming the benefits of eliminating the second amendment.