King, I think you meant to say that you'd reply to my posts if I read your posts carefully. I promise you, I do read your posts carefully before I respond. I wish you would read mine as carefully as I do yours.

Your "Aha" moment where you say, "As for 'correcting the incorrect on this board'---There it is, keith. See what I mean. I may quibble, differ, offer my opinion respectfully without spite or spleen. Correcting implies I know better, holder of "truths", an arrogance too often displayed here.", is a perfect example. Can't you see what you just did? This paragraph, and your entire post really, is doing exactly what you accuse me of doing. Why is it OK for you to correct me (and others), implying that I may arrogantly act like I know better than others, while you are doing exactly what you say you don't do. We're right back to the "Do as I say, not as I do" type of preaching that is reserved especially for those of us who are unapologetic pro-gunners. And still, the grabbers on board get a pass. You know, quite often when we debate the grabbers, we really do know better and we provide proof to support our positions. It has been they, who offer only strong opinions on gun control while constantly dismissing the facts when their solutions have been tried and failed. We might be more convinced of your pro-gun activist proclivities if you took them to task one tenth as often as you do us. There is something very strange about that. Is it because they NEVER resort to "spite and spleen"? (That last sentence was sarcasm, just to be clear)

I really laughed when I read your line about how the Canadian gun registry came to be. "An overzealous government reacting to a massacre.", you said. I had asked, "How could this be with you on watch?" Apparently the solutions that work which you've been touting sometimes just aren't enough. But it's OK. Gun-owners and even the NRA itself have made the same mistakes in this country. Mistakes like that can be very costly in terms of both freedom and resources. They are especially costly when we learn nothing from them. Solutions that might get one a promotion or a raise or even turn back a highway project just don't work when the adversary is dishonest and pursuing a premeditated agenda by exploiting grief and tragedy.

Your strategy didn't work when it came to Canadian politicians first implementing the Gun Registry. Why should we think the same stategy would work under similar circumstances here and now?

Voting for anti-gun Democrats is dumber than giving treats to a dog that shits on a Persian Rug