1. Vote
2. Educate
3. Join
4. Fight

Obviously, these options are not created equal!

Vote - The simplest thing you can do to keep the government from taking your guns is to vote. If we put the freedom-hating politicians out of office, they can't enact legislation to strip us of our rights, so the most important thing you can do is VOTE.

Educate - this isn't as dry as it sounds. You almost certainly have friends who don't shoot on a regular basis. You probably have friends who have never even held a gun - let alone fired one. Think how wrong your own perceptions about guns might be if you had never been shooting! Now, consider that your friends only know what they see in the movies and hear in the news. They don't even know how terribly distorted and inaccurate their information is. Given only bad information, people with no experience can only make bad decisions.

So EDUCATE them. Tell them about guns. Give them the facts that the media rarely mentions - but which are critical to the debate. Better yet, take them shooting. They may be curious about guns, but they aren't about to go up to a stranger and ask how to shoot. Make sure they have a good time!

Join - Join an organization that will fight for your rights. The biggest pro-gun organization is the NRA, but there are others that are just as dedicated to stopping the government's assault on the right to bear arms. Pick one or more and join! Strength in numbers counts. When the Democrats lost the House for the first time in 30 years, Clinton blamed it on the NRA! And well he should. When gun owners saw the stampede towards gun confiscation, they voted - and defanged the Clinton gun control agenda. This election is likely to be the most important in history on the question of whether we will be disarmed. The cost is minimal. The benefits are great.

Fight - If you don't vote, you don't educate and you don't join, you really only have one option left. When the government agents show up at your door, you fight. It will be a sad day when this is the only option left to honest Americans. But we would do well to realize that this country was founded by citizens overthrowing a government who would not recognize their fundamental rights, and that the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War were not due to abridgment of freedom of the press, freedom of religion or due process. The first shots fired were at Lexington and Concord - and the issue was gun control.