[thackney]

The government may attack a few fringe groups without serious problems. But trying to take the guns of the population at large has been tried before. It started the most important war in US history.

http://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html

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It working pretty well in Great Britain, and it was a rip-roaring success in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Commie China and Khmer Rouge Cambodia.

Are Americans a different species than the people in those countries? Do we really have some magical genetic protection from it ever happening here?