Do you really expect me to believe the average NRA sympathizer is remotely qualified to defend my freedom from enemies, foreign or domestic? No, neither you, or anyone on the Right, really believes any of that minuteman crap. And if you do, you're bigger damn fools than I thought possible. Tell me, do we have a second amendment right to bear poison gas, biological weapons? They're just what we need to handle those blue helmets and black helicopters.

No, what really bothers you is that a profitable business might be actually shut down by government action and an outraged public for the minor infraction of peddling and promoting a deadly product against which we have no defense. After all, some day you might even own your own business.

It is an insult to everyone who has actually shed blood for this country to think that we owe our freedom, or may one day owe our freedom, to the likes of Wayne LaPierre and his gang of corporate yes-men and his hillbily Hitler pep squad.

Our country has its armed force, and it has its Constitution. And it has never lacked for people willing to die for it, even the last time when the rebels threw a tantrum because they couldn't get their way. I've seen what the Right's got, and I don't trust them. They'll sell their country out in a heartbeat for a tax cut.

I'm watching them do it right now, in Congress.