Originally Posted by fiddler

JWB: the interesting part is that just about everything you're proposing is already in place to some extent. For instance possessing an unregistered firearm is a crime, and it's a parole violation. A background check is ran on everyone attempting to purchase a firearm. In NC it's a two day wait period.

The truth is that fanatics like the NRA steams from your second amendment right to "A well armed militia necessary for the security of the free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." They take the bear arms part and forget the militia part. I think that the two are dependent on one another, otherwise they would have made it a separate amendment or so. In these modern times, do we really need a militia? Apparently so according to the people in Michigan think so as they maintain a militia.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.