My comments? Well, when I first read the sentence by itself, "I just don't want to die alone" I thought, how silly, everyone dies alone, even with others in close proximity, you still die alone. When I read the article, I grimly realized there is at least one other man who feels exactly as I do. I do hunt, and I do shoot to better those skills, but deep down I have a fear, not irrational, but a fear of exactly what he describes in the article. I too am very law-abiding, but I too fear that one day . . . but I am not foolish enough to believe there will be a door-to-door confiscation. That would have predictable results and be unacceptable in the calamity it would cause. The ban will be incremental, as it has been. At some point it will become intolerable. At that point I will cease to be the overly law-abiding, mild mannered insurance agent and I will be "something else." I don't know what. I sure don't know when. Perhaps it will not occur while I am young enough to act/react. It nearly happened in 1992 here in Illinois. The governor nearly passed a bill making AR-15's a [b]felony to possess under any circumstances[/b]--no grandfather provision, just a felony to possess property legally purchased with highly taxed dollars and lawfully used. I attended a local pro-gun rally and afterward was able to be nose to nose with the representative of the governor's office and he, with vehemence said, "We won't be able to come into your home to get them, but if you try to shoot them or transport them in a vehicle, WE WILL GET YOU!!" I put my face within inches of his and declared with equal fury, but quietly, "You better bring lots of friends, and I want [b]you[/b] personally to come after mine!" We were able to defeat the law by one vote, but it changed me. I was not politically active before that. Now I am. I made no preparations for SHTF before that, now I do. I hate to think of what I would have done had the law passed. I know I would not have destroyed my one AR I owned at the time. I have a wonderful life and much to live for, but no children, no one dependent upon me. My wife would be better off financially if I died (I said I'm a life insurance agent!). While I'm still young enough to be able to, I guess I'm "bad news" for the communists/statists. Certainly, far better men than I have died for liberty. I hope things never come to that, but I am not optimistic.