[cva66snipe]

Yeah well for 135 years we didn't have a phone in every house and for 215 years we didn't have cell phones. Now we not only have cell phones outnumbering landlines but throw away phones available in every community. When foreign calls from suspected terrorists in terrorist-harboring countries call we don't always have the time.

Tell me something. Are you any more dead by say 200 years ago causing a stampede through town killing people? The threat of violence is as old as Cain and Abel so are attacks by the weapon of the age. Name me one government that has suceeded in stopping it. The only workable solution is well armed and free citizens.

[Darkwolf377]

Tell me something. Are you any more dead by say 200 years ago causing a stampede through town killing people? The threat of violence is as old as Cain and Abel so are attacks by the weapon of the age. Name me one government that has suceeded in stopping it. The only workable solution is well armed and free citizens.

So well-armed citizens stopped every stampede that came through town?

New technologies call for new measures to defend against them. That's so basic it's hard to believe anyone can't grasp it. How would a well-armed citizenship defend against air or submarine attacks? Nuke attacks?

We have to be vigilant when it comes to these kinds of new laws, but to simply say "Nope, what worked 200 years ago will work for the next 200 years" is to be uninformed about reality.

[wita]

The only workable solution is well armed and free citizens.

There isn’t much to argue with except for the fact that I do not consider myself well armed, and every day that passes, because of government regulation and law, I become even less so. Well armed might begin with an Abrams in the driveway an F-15/F-22/F-35 with all the extras in the garage, and a nuclear sub at the summer home on the coast.