harry wrote:

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb taking a vote on what to have for
dinner...

Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

- Benjamin Franklin

Thank God America is a federal republic.- Hide quoted text -

WAS.

Still. For example, Wisconsin recently passed a concealed handgun license
law, thereby becoming the 48th state to permit such. Regrettably, the
federal government still makes it difficult (but not impossible) to own a
machine gun, mortar, or hand grenade.

These regulations on crew-served weapons and destructive devices should,
too, be left to the states. I could make good use of a few landmines.