[jjm2111]

Bang!

[Spok]

"Rely instead on your natural right to self-defense, and when California (or whoever) tells you to start registering weapons so they can come back in two years and confiscate them, the first thing to do is to go live somewhere else."

Exactly. The growth of a totalitarian government cannot be stopped by words written on a piece of paper. Only the willingness and ability to enforce those words gives them substance.