The problem in the USA, is that we have basically become a socialist nation without giving up our guns. We want that Socialist Security check when we get old, and we want medicare, medicaid, aid to families with dependent children, food stamps, yadda, yadda, yadda. We want the government to take care of us, but not to tell us what to do. When I was growing up, my parents took care of me, and they figured that gave them the right to tell me what to do. If you want the right, shoulder the responsibility.
Founding fathers would have been against that stuff as well, but we like it just fine, it seems. Also, we have become a fascist nation. The person who coined the word "fascist" said that it was a poor choice, he should have named it "corporatism". It is where big business and big government work hand in hand. Look who the politicians really work for when they get to washington. You vote for them, then they go to work for the big corporations' benefit, not yours.
Also, the founding fathers were against democracy. They called it"tyranny of the masses". Right is right and wrong is wrong, and a majority vote does not change that. The biggest political goal the average American has these days is voting somebody else's money into his pocket. We are a social democracy, and that is a large part of our problem.
I don't think many people care what Montana, Wyoming and Idaho does. The population of America mainly lives in cities. We have no population here that amounts to much. The cities are effectively disarmed already, as far as legal gun ownership goes. It is the corporate city law superceding federal law or state law. That old corporate "fascist" thing again. If you have to get licensed to caryy, then it's not a right.
Since most people live in cities, you will mainly have to fight in cities if you want a free America where everybody can be armed. Hiding out in the sticks with your gun is where the opposition wants you, and as long as you stay there they have won.
I read recently that congress is authorizing drones to begin operations over the US. Their initial task will be to patrol the Mexican border. It could grow to other things, like searching for "terrorist" groups in the boonies, etc. The US Air Force says it plans to train more drone pilots than fighter pilots and bomber pilots combined. Two American citizens were killed in a foreign country by drones recently, without trial by jury that a citizen has a right to. Nobody seems to have cared. Neither will they care when they start killing "terrorist" gun owners that refuse to give up their weapons during a "national emergency". Pres. Bush and his Patriot Act has basically given the gov the right to go after who THEY define as a terrorist.
What's that droning sound I hear?
