Oren wrote:

Ask to the comment about the NRA being unreasonable, ask the wife
if Clinton was wrong to add armed patrols in our schools...

If mass murder performed on your children is not too high of a cost for
your american society to pay just so it can crow and brag that it has
the right to keep and bear arms (and maintain the intellectual farce
that it NEEDS that right) - then what exactly would be too high a
price. ?

You've already given up many things to the gov't. Any right or ability
you had (or thought you had, or wish you had) to conduct anonymous
commerce, travel and communications within your own country for a
start. You don't seem to care about losing those aspects of civilian
life that the founding fathers and early americans enjoyed.

Everything in society is balanced between cost and benefit. Risk and
reward. Every product, every service.

Cars, cutlery, toasters. The design and cost of all retail products and
services is a balance - overwhelmingly in favor of benefit, making great
efforts to reduce risk. Personal firearms exist outside this balance -
forever given idiosyncratic exception to their cost, their toll, their
liability upon society.

Nothing can be more insane, illogical, ugly or monstrous as when a
society gives itself the right to own and wield dangerous weapons
AGAINST ITSELF in order to protect itself.

Do you really think _We the People_ have no right to remove a
tyrannical government? Even with force if necessary?

Do you really believe that at any point in the history of your country,
and especially now, that US citizens could organize and fight against
the US Military and win, thereby overthrowing a so-called tyrannical
gov't?

Do you really believe that some simple, feeble words on a dusty piece of
paper would really give you some magical ability to be the hero and
overthrow a tyranical gov't?

Do you really believe that as a last resort, your gov't and the military
it controls wouldn't use it's significant chemical and biological
weapons against you - "the people" ?

The civillian right to own and bear arms is a hollow promise. It will
never be able to rescue you from a tyranical, beligerant government.
But you are paying, and will continue to pay a heavy price for that
false, inconsequential, ineffective "right".