its time. arm yourselves. i dont think you necessarily need to carry one with you every where you go but everyone should have one for defense at home.

I already do

1) "The Winnenden school shooting appeared today to have sparked a rash of copycat threats across Germany, as two men were arrested and a school was evacuated after police received information of internet warnings. Rushing to prevent a repeat of Tim Kretschmer's deadly rampage, in which 16 people died, police in the northern town of Ennepetal arrested a 17-year-old boy who allegedly bragged to his fellow pupils that he was planning an attack on his school. A search of his home revealed a stash of instructions on how to make explosives and a "chemical substance" which could have been used in the process. No further details were immediately available." Source and further information: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/albertville-school-shooting-copycats 2) "Germany's interior minister has said the country does not need to tighten its already tough gun laws following Wednesday's deadly school shooting rampage that left 16 people dead. "We shouldn't think about tougher laws all the time, but think about what we can change in society," Wolfgang Schaeuble told the Reuters news agency on Thursday as more information emerged on the teen shooter. Investigators said Tim Kretschmer, 17, was a withdrawn teenager who prematurely stopped psychiatric treatment for depression in September." "Prosecutors indicated that the teenager's father could face legal action if he were found to have violated the country's gun laws, which were tightened in 2002 after 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser shot dead 16 people, mainly teachers, and himself at a high school in the eastern German city of Erfurt. Kretschmer's rampage was also carried out at a high school. He returned to his former school on Wednesday to kill nine students and three teachers before fleeing on foot and by car, killing three more people, and eventually turning the gun on himself after a shootout with police. Kretschmer shot many of his victims in the head at close range with his father's legally-registered 9-mm Beretta pistol. The father, a member of a shooting club, had 4,600 rounds of ammunition and 15 guns at home, 14 of which were locked in a gun-closet as required by German law. But the Beretta was kept in the father's bedroom, police said. "Everything here points to negligence on the part of the father as far as the storage of this weapon is concerned," Ralf Michelfelder, a police spokesman, said." Source and further information: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/03/200931315431302730.html If this is what happens in a country where you have a restrictive jurisdiction on guns, I wonder what could happen in America.