Yes, sana, I am amongst the center. I lean left, but I am, overall, a moderate. In fact, Alaska, this issue is one of those that PROVES I'm part of the middle. I don't support bans on civilian ownership of guns. I DO support gun ownership, and even concealed carry. I just support reasonable regulation on both. What regulation of guns do YOU support?
I suggest that maybe you've isolated yourself among like minded people for so long that you may have lost track of what 'normal' is. See, that's where the problem begins because in my experience, people who have to say they support 'reasonable' regulation generally support nothing of the kind. "Reasonable" becomes indicative of anything but reasonable. Oh, well that's easy. Have you been convicted of a violent crime of any sort? No gun for you, for 10 years. (back ground check by state governments). Have you used a gun to commit a crime? (aggravating factor at sentencing). Are you under the care of a psychiatrist/psychologist? A word from them to the local police... no guns for you. http://www.gunlawsbystate.com/felons-and-firearms/
I was born into this country, a nation that whose national government has lost its mind and is self destructing. Pragmatically speaking, there isn't a damn thing I can do about that so... I look out for myself and my own.
While doing that, I try to sound the alarm. Perhaps its useless but... there it is.
The federal government is going to collapse. How violent it becomes as it dies, remains to be seen. The soviet union died without bloodshed. One hopes unka sam is at least as good as the soviet union in that respect.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst. The state governments will be the only entities capable of resisting the might of the feds if the feds decide to start killing people.
"We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!" J. Picard speaking of the Borg.
The US federal government has become very much like the Borg.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Many millions believe this and have planned for it. Peaceful or violent many will die either from the violence or just starve to death. We are never farther in time from total anarchy than the next meal once all systems fail.
Similar to "Lucifer's Hammer"...
