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Buy a gun. Take a martial arts class. Be wary of your surroundings.

God bless America.

http://smith-wesson.com/
http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/
http://www.colt.com/
http://www.berettausa.com/
http://www.benelliusa.com/
http://www.sigarms.com/
http://www.glock.com/

What makes you think a woman can't respond for herself?

http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/index.jsp?loc=231&S ITEID=B&PartNumber=MP51

Here's more info on the grenade launcher, mentioning that "... The system goals are to precisely deliver airburst rounds in MOUT and rural terrains that are five times more lethal at greater than twice the range of the M203(.223 cartridge). The 20mm HE fuze function features include point detonation (P.D.) delay, self-destruct, and a "window mode."

Here's the link.

but I reminded him that a Mac 10 is what the REAL action heroes use.

According to Tom Clancy, real action heroes use these.

The rifle in at least one of the drawings is almost identical to the Heckler & Koch OICW that's meant to replace the aging M-16. It's nothing more than a bullpup design with an integrated grenade launcher. The technology behind it will be pretty cool if it makes it into production.

That's an awfully broad level of granularity you have there.

On such issues such as health care, there's a whole spectrum of possibilities. Mr. Gore claims to be interested in fairly significantly expanding prescription drug benefits for the eldery (never mind that it's the uninsured *in general* who get screwed over... but the elderly vote the most), whereas Mr. Bush wouldn't divert as much resources in that direction.

"Assault weapons" is a remarkably silly term typically used to mean "has certain mean-looking cosmetic features". Normally, the terms single-action, double-action, semi-automatic, fully-automatic, pistol, and rifle are clear enough with grey areas between machine pistol/submachine gun and carbine/rifle. Perhaps it's useful for reporters who don't know enough and don't research enough, so they end up labelling an HK MP5 as a "rifle" (Apparently, CNN's reporters don't bother checking, say, H&K's web site, or even realizing that MP5="Machine Pistole 5".)...

Bradley, IIRC, supported mandatory registration. Gore had a somewhat more moderate stance, although he's also trying to exploit random shootings to argue for trigger locks (odd, most of these shooters aren't toddlers, and had plenty of time to remove trigger locks...). Bush... well, Texas has its reputation for a reason. IIRC, he's supporting trigger lock *sales* but not making their usage mandatory.

And on taxes, their positions also differ significantly in how much they're willing to commit (of the potentially imaginary budget surplus) and whom gets screwed in favor of whom. Bush, for instance, appears to have a serious problem with the idea that the top 20% pay 80% of the income taxes, while various others pay literally negative income taxes, while Gore appears to be noncomittal on tax cuts/hikes.

So they're not really that uniform...