Hmm. Well, I am a MGS fan...

Well, dammit. Between this, MGR and Aliens I'm not going to know what to do with myself over the next month.

Why so anxious to announce that you're shallow?

Can't even skip them on round two?

I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.

Well, why do you think the rest of the developed world has managed to make so much more headway on this than we have?

I agree that our government is totally corrupt, but you think we are prepared to rise up and fight? Just no. There was a time when your at-home-arsenal would have been a check to the government, but that time has long since passed.

Look, you seem like a really intelligent person, and I'm glad we can have this discussion without resorting to name-calling and insulting. However, you have almost entirely deflected the key points in my previous post which suggest that we could -eventually- have a society where the answer is not simply "arm everyone"…

Oh loosen up, yo.

Oh loosen up, yo.

Oh loosen up, yo.

God I hope so.

God I hope so.

God I hope so.

God I hope so.

Look, we're not animals, and I'm not buying the comparison of yourself to an evolutionarily perfected man-eater.

I'm sorry, but as a student of history I missed the part where the founders of our country envisaged the second amendment as the driving force behind the kind of twisted, gun-obsessed culture that we have ended up with.

You certainly have a right to self defense, and I'm for working towards a future—one so far off that we can't even see yet—where you won't need a gun to be on equal footing with a would be attacker. I live someplace like that now, so it's possible. It would take a lot of effort, no doubt, but I really think we could…

I'm sorry, but as a student of history I missed the part where the founders of our country envisaged the second amendment as the driving force behind the kind of twisted, gun-obsessed culture that we have ended up with.

You're right. It wasn't a paradigm shift at all. People have ignored those words for years so it wasn't surprising when they legally stripped them of all meaning.