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And, as I have noted countless times before, anyone taking that stance immediately LOSES the protection afforded by the Second Amendment.

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Well, as Jon Stewart observed on THE DAILY SHOW last week, if the Muslims form a well regulated militia, we a done for!

Ted Nugent will look at this story, bitch about evironmentalists and war protesters, then lecture all of us on the dangers of alcohol.

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Don't forget convince a teenage girl's parents to let you become her legal guardian so she can live and have sex with you.

A thoughtful, well-written post above, Aaron, but I'm curious... is hunting the ONLY way to eat in Idaho?

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How else would you get meat without buying it in a store? These are peole that live poor. Changing their situation is very similar to changing the situation of someone growing up in the ghetto. It takes money to change ones situation as far as where you live and what you do to make the money you have now. However, if you live on $15,000 a year gross or less, you have no money. There just aren't a lot of economic opportunities for them. These are people that grow gardens and can that food in the fall, but it isn't enough to make it through the winter. Many of these logging towns that I spoke of are inaccessable in the winter months by anything other than a helicopter. People have learned to stock up, can, and hunt in order to make through the winter. Some of them are in positions where they have enough space to raise some chickens, but that is the extent of their livestock. Yes, a frontier way of life may be dead back east. However, it is very alive and well in places like Idaho because that is how people survive. I am not talking about people that have five or six children they are feeding either. They are like most people, two children and they live in a trailer house, or a house that was built in 1920 on a postage stamp of a lot. They don't own the home either, they rent it. They are also decent people as well. Do they not have a right to exist as long as they do no harm to other people? I'm not trying to defend Nazi's like Ted Nugent here either, or the radical views of the NRA. Here is something to think about, I know it is a dilema that I have often inside myself. I served my country, and I was in the Special Forces, so stop and think about some of the things I have had to do. During this time of mud, blood, and terrible things happening, the word back home was that I was defending our way of life. I know that is not really why I was there doing the things I did, but that is the reason they were spinning back here. Lets entertain the idea that I was actually defending our way of life, which there were times that it was actually that. That means I was defending your, yes you, way of living. Your right to live where you live, live the way you do, cast your opinions on forums like this, believe in religions that I do not, everything that you are and do. If that is true, then I also defended the right of that guy who lives in Stanley Idaho to live his life the way he does, which includes him hunting to feed his family because he really doesn't have any other choice. Also consider this in your thoughts on this. Idaho's entire population is just a tad over a million people, in a state that is much larger than many states back east. There are massive open areas in this state. I am trying to figure out where I stand on this whole firearms issue. I agree that there are some very stupid firearms owners out there, being very stupid with firearms. However, there are people out there who own firearms and are very responsible with them.    

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And thousands of murdered children is a fair price to pay for that!! HURRAH!!