Look, I'm not for indiscriminate ownership of guns either, but you have to understand that you are reinforcing the idea that some of the people you cannot stand hold by trying to remake this society into an egalitarian Utopia based not on merit but on the credo that everyone has the same right to resources in relatively the same amount, no matter whether or not they deserve them. For that you'd have to take away too much of the pie from the successful to make it worth their bothering with all the long years of work that it takes to to bake it. Why not become as mediocre as the old Soviet Union was, and bow to a supreme dictator. Later of course you'll have to instill a sense of patriotism by telling them whom to hate. So, instead of shooting each other by owning too many guns, the firepower will be strictly in the hands of the military, restricted for use in checking Un-Utopian ideas, and spreading the faith overseas. You people still don't get it that folks here do not want to amalgamate into a one-world failure, but lead by example instead, and depose overbearing tyrannies from time to time. Keep making them paranoid beyond what I consider a healthy skepticism, and you won't achieve any kind of gun control in our lifetimes. And no, it's not only the Doomsday Preppers that I'm talking about. You think you have the numbers now with your god in office, but keep this in mind: Americans are Americans, not simply ethnicities. There are still many of the good old teachings rolling around in the heads of those you consider converts, and I don't think you'll soon get the majority to proselytize for you. If you ever do, I hope to be environmentally unfriendly worm-food by then, perhaps join the cows in one last emission of smelly fumes.
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