I think the important thing to realize regarding the flood of guns is that this was no accident. Fear has driven this non-fad. People may not realize it, but it is easy in many states for anyone to buy a large caliber, fully automatic weapon. Some states made cosmetic laws that saids something like "if you don't pay us to approve the gun, it will be forbidden." Assault rifles can temporarily lose a pistol grip or a folding stock and then be considered a more pc killing device. The guns are here, they're everywhere. Now what happens? Does the violence begin to escalate exponentially? Or does the government come out with a system-wide ban and begin to try to confiscate all those guns. (Good luck with that... entire states would secede from the Union).

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If you look at the tremendous waste coming out of both parties in Congress it is disgusting. I'll take the free market any day. At least corruption, waste and mismanagement eventually sees daylight. With our gov't, we just get taxed.

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It also crafted press releases to make Jack Abramoff's clients look good.

I'm not sayign there isn't waste in gov't, but CAGW is just a lobbying group disguised as a "think thank."

Also if you think the "invisible hand of the free market" is efficient and impartial, I have some urine-filled light bulbs from the Baghdad Police Academy (built through the magic of the free market) to sell to you.

There is nothing -- NOTHING -- that supports the assumption that the private sector is any more or less noble than the public one.

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"There is nothing -- NOTHING -- that supports the assumption that the private sector is any more or less EFFICIENT than the public one."

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Every driver's license I've every obtained has been obtained in less than an hour. (Except one time, in some redneck state that passed some Republican bullshit legislation to fight "illegals" through the DMV -- long story, but that required me to sign an affidavit at a separate office and listen to some hillbilly talk about how we all have to sacrifice a little to make America safe.)

I went for a driver's license in a not-so-efficient country once: it took four days and I bribed one official ($50). Every foreigner I've ever spoken to (except those Commie Big Guv-Mint Brits who can get their licenses by MAIL) who has had to get an American driver's license is amazed at how comparably efficient the DMV is in the US compared to many many places overseas, including modern bureaucratic European countries.

The TSA? Well, I gvue you that one. Except, here the thing: the TSA is a quasi public-private institution! No wonder why it's inefficient. Once you start inviting your private sector buddies to the public trough, all kinda of things go wrong.

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Ok, let's examine this more closely. 99% of the population has much less money now, and 1% has much more. Sales of luxury items are up. I just don't get it.

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The really horrible thing about being weak and being perceived as weak is that the bullies get bullier and the people who you would have never figured had any bully in them get a gleam in their eye.

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