Possession is 9/10s of the law, as the saying goes. Ann B. also once (or twice, or more) pointed out that if you can't defend a possession of yours with a rifle, you don't really own it.
Yes, that is a "Hello Kitty" AR-15.
" Look at the succession of bubbles over the past 20 years as people have desperately convinced themselves that there is a surefire way to get rich without working... or at the very least, to work for 30 to 40 years, save 5 percent of their income, and then spend 25 or 30 more years in an equally comfortable retirement. A few thousand invested in dotcom stocks was supposed to metastasize into a fortune large enough to retire at 45. The housing bubble that came afterward was even better: you didnt even have to divert money into savings! You could enjoy granite countertops, whirlpool baths, and built-in surround-sound systems right now, secure in the knowledge that while you sat on the deck and sipped Chablis, your house was topping up the retirement fund. And now? We tell ourselves we are no longer chasing speculative returns; were going to tuck 8 percent of our salary into a 401(k) and settle for that safe 8 percent return that were told to expect from a good diversified index fund. "