Ok, I've had my first diary published on the RKBA group's stream and it generated some very good discussion as well as some requests for clarification.
One of the largest areas of discussion was in the idiom "Those that choose to not own guns are beholden to those that do". The point that I was trying to make was that those who chose to not gain familiarity or chose to not own a firearm at all would put faith in their personal freedom into the hands of someone that was armed, such as a policeman, county sheriff's deputy or soldier. If none of these were available, such as in the aftermath of a major storm or other natural disaster, you would have no further safety net for your self-defense. In a perfect society, the only use for firearms at all would be for sport. I will argue that we do not live in a perfect society and perhaps never will.
Another point of clarification I was asked about was that of Natural Rights. While some may feel that the term 'natural rights' is too antiquated for use, I disagree. My personal belief leads me to see that there are underlying, undeniable truths. All animals in nature have some manner of protecting themselves and we are really no different. Our most base self-preservation instinct is the fight/flight stimulus response. At the core our being is a sense of self-preservation. This is where I get both the concept of Self-Defense as a natural right and that heroes are people who through personal choice work against this internal sense of self-preservation and put others' lives before their own.
A third point was this: "what differentiates natural law from positive law, since natural rights are inalienable by definition." which was raised after a fellow RKBA member stated that Due Process can curtail your rights. I feel that making poor choices that causes society to impose limitations on your access to some tools that would have been available to you had you made different decisions. Just like a king cannot successfully order the waves to not roll in during high tide, no law can be made that takes away our ability to defend ourselves. This plays into the 2nd Amendment in that it grants us protection from direct Federal infringement upon our access to arms. The 16th puts the capstone on it by stating that no state law ever trumps a federal one if they are in direct conflict. Therefore if a state law infringes upon the right to keep and bear arms, it may be found unconstitutional by the judiciary and thus repealed.