RosemontCrest wrote:

Yup. We need to suspend the constitutionally-protected freedoms of
all law-abiding citizens because of the occasional, irresponsible
abuses of only a few people. Gee, that makes sense... Sigh.

Yea, just like so many of your rights have been taken from you as you
partake in air travel.

And note that the TSA is not just in airports. They are expanding their
presence on your highways, bus, train and subway stations. You no
longer have the right to liberty - which is (in part) the free(1) and
anonymous travel within your own country.

(1) by free, I mean free of identity-checking, presentation of
documents, searches of your person or property.

Tell me what is more important.

The right to bear arms, or your liberty - the right to travel and move
about *in your own country* without the gov't knowing and tracking and
sanctioning your every trip.

No, you can't un-do the right to bear arms. Your society is permeated
with guns and you can't un-do that. It was a bad decision on the part
of the founding fathers to put that in the constitution. You have to
live with it now - that is, unless you get shot by a gun and your "right
to life" has been taken from you.

The really sad thing is that you all feel that the fate of this 12
year-old boy is a justifiable cost in terms of the over-all benefit you
feel that you gain by having the right to bear arms. A gain that none
of you can even explain.