Not punishing dishonest businessmen leads to events like Enron.

Too many laws are restricting our freedom.

Now the government is stepping on our backs and taking our guns. The idea of New Orleans police bum-rushing an elderly lady in her own kitchen and "looting" the handgun she owns for self-protection is outrageous. http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=177

Wonderful. Take personal responsibility for yourself and your actions.

The media and our government are making us fearful. Dissent today makes you likely to be labeled a terrorist.

Judges are supposed to know the law, yet they decide cases based on their feelings instead.

I suggest legislators clear half the laws off the books, starting with any that are unconstitutional.

Legislators create many laws. I suggest they clear half of them off the books.

Those well-meaning people intend to take the handgun I carry for self-defense ... even if they have to kill me to take it.

The immoral will find a law to suit their purpose. Those with moral sense understand the justice system continues to become more corrupt with each new law.

Yes...

Yet injustice occurs, such as a white jury acquitting a white man of lynching a black man, or O.J. found "not guilty".

The opposite of "good men" are Congressmen.

Our tyrannical government has perverted its power. One example is the Patriot Act.

Our tyrannical congress IS corrupt. Vote them ALL out and set term limits.

Our government has stolen most of our liberties since "The New Deal", though only the politicians got a deal. Today, government can get away with simply saying a citizen "could be" a terrorist to remove your liberty.

So why does the U.S. government keep increasing our repression?

It DID make a difference who had guns. Non-Jewish Germans may have owned guns, but that's not whose guns were being taken away. Millions of disarmed Jews were herded off to their deaths, while armed Jews were able to resist the Nazis. An "...ignorant interpretation of guns..."? You are obviously an anti-American Socialist, who does not understand the significance of your attack on the Constitution of the United States, specifically the Second Amendment. To better balance your skewed knowledge, I suggest you read The Second Amendment Primer by Les Adams.

Infringement examples: My handguns are registered (for eventual confiscation); I can't buy a machinegun without government permission (FFL, costly fees, inspections at any hour, etc.); People in California can't own .50 caliber guns; Requiring a CCW to "bear" arms; Felons who have served their time are unable to own guns, even for self-defense (if they are still dangerous criminals, they should still be in prison)...

Politicians are the true "mindless thugs". You won't find them (or their kids) fighting in Iraq. You WILL find them taking your rights, one type of gun at a time, adding law after law of infringement. They foolishly say law enforcement are the only people who should have guns, but in reality officers are as likely as anyone to break the law. While federal agents are "only following orders", so were the Nazi guards of death camps. How long before benevolent federal agents show up on our doorstep to confiscate our guns? The Patriot Act says all they have to do is say you COULD be a terrorist to remove all your rights. Free society? Not any more!

The government program D.A.R.E., intended to decrease drug use among our teens, actually increased drug abuse. Another waste of money that demonstrates our socialist government doesn't work.

...except when you need them! The police are the nearly poor, hired to keep the unruly poor in check.

Probably the best explanation ever written regarding weapons, crime, law-abiding citizens, and responsibility. The Assault Weapon Ban is yet another example that our government doesn't work as the people want, but as their socialist tyranny demands.

Don't let anyone take your right to own and carry arms.

First they lie, exagerate, scare, mis-state, etc. their position to convert as many as possible to their side, so they have the army that will shout and shoot. Careful examination of their side will probably show they are socialists or communists, they want to tell you what to do and say.