This is a fantastic essay by Mark Alexander of "The Patriot Post". It should be required reading in schools. Do yourself a favor...take 5 minutes to read it:

http://patriotpost.us/alexander/15685/

The below statistic really made me smile:

According to a worldwide survey conducted the year before Obama's election, though the United States had only 5% of the world's population, Americans owned 50% of the world's guns.