For those who support "gun rights"

[Francis Marion]

32. Popular gun ownership = a test for Freedom.

1) I have a right to own and use a firearm up to and including a military grade individual weapon. Fifty years ago, that meant an M1 Garand. Today, that means an M4 carbine.

2) I am one of The People. It is the right The People to keep and bear arms. Moreover, that right shall not be infringed. Stepping back, my human rights- gun rights among many others- are not GRANTED by the US Constitution. Rather, they are my- our- birthright and inheritance from God Almighty- rights which, after the fact, the US Constitution also happens to acknowledge.

3) I live in California, am a 'regular guy' (not a police officer, not in CANG)
-I cannot go to my local gun store and buy an M4 carbine as used in US service and therefore suitable for modern Second Amendment (well regulated militia) use.
-Can't legally buy a standard capacity M16 30-round magazine.
-Can't legally buy a semiautomatic M4-ish rifle due to various 'assault weapon' (a Nazi term) bans.
-Can't legally buy the same hardware I am likely to find in use by my local Sheriff's department.
-The People and The Institutions cannot legally make the same firearm choices, and I find this unacceptable and un-American, besides being contrary to Amendment II.

4) Bonus warning to people in free states:

If you don't want to end up like us in CA, you had better carefully vet the people you choose to make law, and exclude anybody who's compromised on the Bill of Rights, regardless of their party affiliation. It is more important to protect our rights than to elect just anybody who happens to belong to our party. I won't support candidates who won't support our Bill of Rights.

It'll be easy to slide into a police state over time, and a site more difficult to get back out of it, assuming an appetite for freedom still exists. Cassandra out.