I'm certainly not going to sit her and try to tell anyone, let alone a democrat tht the republicans are looking out for the little guy, but you really have to have drunk the kool-aid to believe that the dems care one iota more. Both sides pander to their extreme base. Period.
I don't believe that every democrat is salivating at the thought of taking my guns away. I also don't believe that they have any more control over their "elected officials" than they did over the Va Tech killer. And I absolutely do believe that most will stand idly by while the restrictions happen.
Incidentally there is a system in place. It's called a background check. The mentally ill aren't on the database because somewhere along the line it was decided that it was violation of a mentally ill persons rights to actually let the community know that they were/are dangerous. Until they commit a criminal act they don't come up. I'm thinking really hard on this but I'm pretty sure most of that sort of thinking comes from a certain portion of the political spectrum. What would be the result if all the money that's going to be spent on the fight to control firearms was spent on enforcing the existing laws? Gosh, the system might work. Too bad there's not as much press in enforcing the law as there is in "doing something" by making new ones, regardless of how meaningless.
Funny though, we who simply recognize that there exists a vocal and active group who, by charter, intend to infringe on our rights and we're paranoid. Yet those who would do the infringing are deserving of reasonable discourse. You must live in some sort of utopia Marklart. I however, live in world where some loony may just start shooting up a school/mall/company picnic. I intend to be ready. But hey, that's just me being paranoid.
