@Foolio:
Don't worry I'm sure they'll get around to doing this just as soon as they pass legislature requiring intelligence tests before you can vote.
Ah, but they can't do that, Foolio, because that would be racist.
Like the SATs.
At any rate, not to panda-pile on Ronin even more, but:
@Ronin-sama:
…but we as citizens of America, who are supposed to be free...
I'm sorry, but this kind of thing really grates on me. I mean, the founding fathers get a pass; they were launching a full scale revolution, so some degree of rhetoric is simply to be expected. But in the context of some simple question of policy? It's a phrase vague to the point of lacking any meaning, the only purpose of which is sound good, and by the same token, paint any opposition in a negative light.
Tell me, what is it you mean, when you say U.S. citizens are 'supposed to be free'? Do you mean literally, in the sense of not incarcerated? That's pretty obviously wrong, if you look at the statistics on our prisons. So presumably you mean 'free to… something'. Free to what? Absolutely anything could complete that phrase. Presumably, from context, you meant 'free to own guns', so why not say that? Because, in return for actual clarity and meaning, you lose the grandiose, sweeping nature of your proclamation?
I said it before, and I will say it again. There are arguments -- some stronger than others, but all valid -- to be made for both sides of the issue. Like everyone else here, I am not advocating simply mindlessly taking away all the guns, whatever that would even mean. For that matter, I'm not even sure I've ever indicated which side of the issue I come down on at all. It's honestly quite beside the point, which has nothing to do with your stance on the issue, per se. It's the fear-mongering paranoia, the mindless rhetoric, with which you 'defend' your position to which I, at least, take offense.
It is a sickness, really; and frankly, more than anything else, I feel bad for you if it truly represents how you think.