So yes, that is an interpretation that can be made.

first, that’s ludicrous. either, by your perverse definitions, a patriot IS armed and you’re being redundant OR you are the textbook example of what is wrong with the fetishized weps industry. EVERY scenario you bring up is about some mythical epic conflict between big government [that has been emasculated in its regulatory functions over the past 50 years] and an equally mythical group of heroic owners of fetishized weps who are my last hope for freedom against tyranny.

listen to yourself … 30% casualties … attacking their brothers and sisters. if you got as exorcised about your fellow Americans who are impoverished or disabled or obese or less educated than you as much as you try to maintain this mythical heroic image of gun-porn addicts, you would have save money on your weps AND the country would be a better place. i hope that you’re younger than 25 and you just don’t have perspective. otherwise, you’re scary … like the rest of the gun-porn addicts.

here’s another scenario: you live in Arlington. you’re a tech-savvy American patriot with a good job – and, ok, a gun or several. you own and maintain a car … a BMW, but you won’t let novasteve know that. you like eating out, you patronize businesses in Arlington [just not the froyo place], you have FiOS in your condo, you do some shopping on line, you maintain an online subscription to MMA Weekly … to Wash Times … Guns&Ammo … Motor Week … and Marie Claire, for good measure.

what we already know is that the Republican National Committee [and probably the DNC] know all this and more. they know where you work, where you’re from, what you like to do and a lot of other things. if the gov’t wants to know this and – in your mythical world – act on it nefariously, they’ll collect the info and act. your guns don’t matter. in your mythical scenario, you’ve already lost. it’s just that the NRA keeps you distracted and focused on all of these specious justifications for buying more guns.

in the real world, it maybe a good idea to have a personal wep for home defense. that’s up to the individual. semi-auto military-wannabe weps are just a ruse that you armed patriots fell for, using the dues that you pay to the NRA. i’m not in favor of disarming anyone – except the criminals and cray-cray folks. to me, the problem is that the gun-porn industry sells itself on the fact that weps are the solution to a bunch of crazy hypotheticals. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that this craziness is sold primarily to men, who dutifully line up to by more weps, mags and ammo at the mere whisper that their manhood might be threatened. maybe a little less MMA and a little more Marie Claire.

2) Any tampering with the Second Amendment is extremely dangerous. Also, do you really think that local LEOs are hoping to slug it out with an armed patriot movement? Most cops will do *anything* to avoid showing up on a hot call- report false location, respond two blocks away and request assistance, etc. Assuming you had even a small number of LEOs who would violate their oath and were committed to the universal disarmament- how many would show up to work after they take 30% casualties serving a warrant? And then 10% the next day. And then 60% next week. How long would this reign of terror go on before all citizens were disarmed? 20 years you say? Economic disparity is created and maintained by the Progressive Agenda, and public assistance in the long term is actually more harmful to the recipient than the citizen from whom the money is thefted in the first place.

As far as Democracy? My rights are protected by the BOR. They are not negotiable in any way. There’s not even going to be any discussion about it. Harry Reid made the wise choice to distance himself from Feinstein last week, and others will soon see that this is a third rail issue when the authoritarian Dems fully self destruct in the coming year.