Sigh.
flep, you do remember that the reason we have a Second Amendment, is that the British proved to our founders that government cannot be trusted without a well-armed populace to keep them in line?
I don't carry. I believe the only people who should go armed should be those who can be trusted to shoot straight and safely, and I fail on the first count.
I don't own a gun anymore. I got rid of my hunting rifle shortly after I moved to Iowa and realized that shooting a 30/30 in a flat state was a pretty bad idea, and that my primary reason for shooting it in the first place (white-tail deer) was illegal in Iowa.
But the only reason I don't take a course in gun safety (apart from not knowing where to go for it here), and the only reason I don't go out and buy a couple guns (like a nice Colt 1911 and a 12-gauge Remington pump, or perhaps even a modernizedAR-15 derivative), is that I think it's too late. My paranoid ass says that anyone buying a gun now is going to be at the top of the "list" when the statists in Washington, Des Moines, etc. get going. And as a self-described anarchist, I'm probably already on a number of lists.
I have very little confidence in my ability to stay out of the hands of the man, and less in my neighbors, colleagues, friends, and strangers, to help me do so.
I'm not a fan of FoxNews (other than for the propensity of some of its female "news personalities" to wear short skirts). With the exception of a couple of its commentators -- Charles Krauthammer, maybe Brit Hume -- I consider it as worthless as CSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, The NIghtly Business Report, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, and all the rest.
Obama and Romney are not the enemy. The reason America is doomed is that we have apparently become incapable of electing people any better.
Politicians are, to paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke again, are inevitably going to be prostitutes. The problem is that instead of seeking out $5,000/night call girls, Americans have become content to settle for twenty-buck crack addict whores with syphilis and herpes, and then dress them up in Calvin Klein gowns and offer them magnums of Dom Perignon.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)