How can we regulate guns ... ?

So you think tyrannical government is a fantasy that is never likely to take shape?

Rahvin doesn't seem to agree with you. I'm with Rahvin here. We already have a tyrannical government albeit not as bad as most around the world.Edited by foreveryoung, : No reason given.

Did everyone in russia favor the revolution by your reading of history?

That is right, but the citizens can make life a living hell for the government by first non violent means like a nationwide stop work or stop your car in the middle of the highway type methods. The guns come in handy when the government INEVITABLY steps in with heavy handed methods to stop it.Remember tianammen square? When the government stepped in to squash the peaceful revolt, the people were smashed. Think of what the result would have been had the people been armed. The government would have its hands full trying to tamp it all down if the MAJORITY of its citizens were armed.Edited by foreveryoung, : No reason given.

Can the government round up the totality of its citizens? Do you really think everyone in the armed forces and the police are going to take up arms against their own citizens? Some probably will but not all.

You are talking about rather small scale protests. I am talking about nationwide protest with not just a minority of citizens involved.
Even though the presence of citizens pointing guns would indeed invoke a massacre, the massacre would not go unnoticed by the rest of the citizenry who actually gave a damn. I would unless an even more pronounced nationwide protest and eventually a violent and bloody revolution.

So I guess you are claiming that milititias and the armed forces are the only entitites the founders of the consitution had in mind when the subject of the right to bear arms was being considered?

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;Notice this part: when called into the actual Service of the United States;If the militia in question is not called into the actual service of the United States, the President is not the commander in Chief of it.

Statistics are not evidence of your point of view unless you can show how. Statistics can be misleading and a totally different understanding can result when the method of how the statistics were derived is uncovered.

How do you know it is gun laws and their enforcement that has dropped crime since the 90's and not some other factor?

Group think is exactly what is going on here in america with a tremendous percentage of the population who are led around like sheep by the likes of Candy Crowley, Anderson Cooper, Piers Morgan, Wolf Blitzer, David Gregory, Rachel Maddow.Where were the Non-Jewish Germans with guns? Nowhere to be found. Why? They didn't give a rat's ass. Actually they did but not in the way you would expect. They bought into hitlers lies about the jews and were in full support of their extermination. It seems people were led around by the nose like sheep back then too. This wasn't done by law was it? It was done by a tyrant. Executive orders anyone?The key point is that GUNS WERE CONSFISCATED. It matters not whether it was by law or decree, the result was the same. Could the jews have prevented their extermination without their guns being confiscated? Probably not, since they were a minority and the rest of the country despised them.It would not have gone done without much notice like it did in reality. The shootout that would have occurred when the military and the SS came to root the jews out of their homes, would have been noticed by everyone, and perhaps, the world would have known more clearly that there , indeed, was a genocide in progress.

Guns were confiscated from the jews according to a law passed by the german parliament? Which of your shoes are colored purple? You should really learn facts about the movie "white men can't jump". Ever hear of Wesley Snipes? The world's men know about steroids. It just wasn't expedient to cut kill chicken by ringing their necks.I bet you have no idea what point I am making do you?

You don't care because you don't want to know you responded to things I never said and made points that were irrelevant.I never said the executive orders were tyrannical. I was making the comparison that guns were taken away apart from any laws in both cases. I will have to look into whether or not the confiscation laws were passed by a parliament that was free from hitlers control or not.The world did not know about the genocide occurring in germany; not poland. Thosewere two separate countries in case you didn't know.

Can you purchase any of the guns now mentioned in the executive orders? That is equivalent to taking away your guns in my book. More precisely, it is taking away your right to purchase a particular gun. They knew about what was going on in poland and austria and other occupied countries. They did not know that jews were being forced out of their homes at gunpoint onto trains to be taken to the east to be exterminated in gas chambers. It was only made known to a few people and the top military leaders of the time make absolutely no mention of the gas chambers in any of their memoirs.

My point was that theodoric was both not addressing my points directly and replying to things I never said. It was satire that was mocking how totally irrelevant his remarks were in light of what I had said.