[B4Ranch]

I wish the voters had as much influence as the UN does. At what point do you consider influence becoming control? If I can exert enough influence on someone, I consider that control.

If a burglar breaks into my home and I find him in my office. If I have a revolver stuck in my waistband, am across the twenty foot room, while he is on his knees going through my desk drawers, it should be sufficient for me to say, "If you get up I will kill you with a shot to the head", don't you think? I realize I don't have physical control of the person but you can bet I am exerting one helluva lot of physicological control over his actions. Is that influence or control?

[A Navy Vet]

He who has the power, has the control. In this equation, guess who has the ultimate power...and therefore the control?

[A Navy Vet]

As for your analogy, that would certainly be physical control over the intruder. He may have a couple choices he can make, but only within the confines of your control.