> Hi, Tim Richardson!   
    > I read your message from 20.01.2016 05:59   
      
    >   ak>> Of course it is up to you to decide. I mean up to Americans. But   
    >   ak>> if the majority wants to introduce strict arm control? Does the   
    >   ak>> voice of the majority means anything in your country?   
      
    >   TR> Firstly, there would have to be a process gone through to change   
    >   TR> the Constitution. Far too many people would both strongly oppose   
    >   TR> any change to the Second amendment or any attempt to do so, and   
    >   TR> secondly, it would take the 2\3'ds majority of all states to make   
    >   TR> it happen. And in this country that's not going to happen.   
      
    > Well, for instance, the green light for gay marriages had been turned on   
    > without any referendum.    
      
   Unlike `state' referendums...federal politicians and governing bodies   
   (House and Senate, not to mention all the federal `entities' who pretty    
   well make their own `rules and regulations') do not dare allow `referendums'   
   to appear on a federal ballot, or the issue of two same-sex sodomites would   
   have been rejected long ago. As would any attempt to circumvent the Second   
   Amendment. There would probably not even be as strong a control as there   
   is right now.   
      
    > Surely this question will not gain the 2/3    
    > approval if the referendum were held. It was a decision made by a very   
    > limited group of American people.   
      
   Which is probably why it won't come to that. Because those who are for   
   stricter and stricter control know they would lose.    
    >   TR> And secondly... no! The `majority' means very little in this   
    >   TR> country.   
       
    >   TR> For every referendum put on a ballot passed by `the majority'...   
    >   TR> there is a leftist state or federal court that will strike down the   
    >   TR> `majority's' decision.   
        
    > So the arm restriction is in the offing. ;=)   
       
   Depends on a lot of things. First...they'd have to go door to door going   
   through violent entry in which many of them would be injured or killed.   
      
   And more and more high ranking law enforcement officials are coming out   
   against it. Insisting people in their jurisdiction arm themselves.   
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