This kid infringed on nobodies rights, he hurt nobody, including himself, how can anyone justify taking his natural rights away? Freedom is dead in this country. I'm thinking of voting democratic just to make the fall come sooner, then maybe we will still have 200 millions guns in circulation, enough to have a sucessfull revolution.
To your 361 - I essentially agree, only I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to vote Dem.
There is a pretty good chance that i will sit an election out or vote 3rd party though, which would have pretty much the same effect.
The GOP just ain't gettin' it, are they?
And the more that Americans get taxed to death and pushed around by bureaucrats, politicians, and the likes of the ACLU and the Teacher's Unions, the more I hear people thinking and talking about the Constitutional 2nd Amendment option.
I would hate to see it come to that, really (Al Queda would just love us to devolve into another Civil War, no doubt) but if our Declaration of Independance is to be taken at all seriously, then it may come down to that or police state slavery.
Since Waco and Ruby Ridge, no one seems to be all that anxious to start the ball rolling in that direction, however. Most Americans still have too much to lose if they try it.
What might break it is if a bunch of Conservative Christians gather up in a communal, independant living compound / bunker and educate their own children, witholding taxes that would normally go to indoctrinating them, and ignoring nitwit bureaucratic orders to regulate them to death.
Then when (not if) the government goons come, we'll get to see if it's a redeaux of the Waco massacre or the Roman seige of Massada, or (since they hopefully won't be nearly as nutz as the Branch Davidians) if significant numbers of fed-up patriots will come out of the woodwork to reenforce them, or flank their attackers and cut off their supply lines.
Then, I think, we'd have a gen-yoo-ine revolution on our hands. Might even make the New York Times and FOX News.
Wouldn't be pretty, though, since the establishment has all of the fancy firepower (Army, Navy, Armor, artillery, air power, nukes etc..).
About the best a popular revolution could do is mount some sort of "insurgency" or resistance movement, much like the Dutch and Danes did when they were under Nazi occupation.
And again; the Islammofacists would just love that.
But do we have any other choices other than living under eventual police state Communism... or Sharia Law?
God help us if we don't.