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They don't seem to be too worried about that. They realize, or are counting on the fact that we don't want to leave our comfort zones, that most of the sheep are snoozing in the pasture.

What they are failing to realize, perhaps, is that between this outright invasion, "Rachel has Two Mommies", being frisked at the airport, having our medical records sent to the government, being watched closely by our banks as though we were drug dealers, while our borders are open, having our credit card companies report what we purchase to the government, having our kids drilled at the Peditricians office about gun ownership, the growing infringement of the government and the U.N. on private property ownership, attempt after attempt to outlaw gun ownership, the inability to do business on the phone because you can't find someone who speaks english, having your kids told to go back to Europe, your property devalued, your taxes wasted, and your Social Security dried up, learning to duck and cover in case of terrorist attack, while our borders are open, our comfort zone just isn't all that comfortable anymore.

Correction, if I may. They have set themselves against an armed people.

An armed populace, perhaps. But an armed people? Part of the preparation for physically disarming us has been a long but steady process of intellectual disarmament, which included convincing us that we were not a "nation" but merely an ideology masquerading as a nation-state - by which line of reasoning, someone from Asia or Africa could be "a better American" than someone who can trace his roots back to Jamestown or Pymouth Plantation.

In other words, we were convinced that an American was simply someone agreeing to whatever it is that constitutes the "American ideology" - because we are a "nation dedicated to a proposition". Once you accept this switch, it becomes impossible to distinguish between "American" as a distinct ethnic/national identity, and "American" as simply any featherless biped who happens to live within the territory of the USA, regardless of how he got here or what his legal status is.

Needless to say, once a sense of nationhood is sufficiently diluted, stripping away that nation's birthrights - including gun rights - becomes markedly easier. It will be packaged as a part of the "war on terrorism", but it'll happen, eventually.