Mick--

I'm certainly not--nor are most posters here, as far as I can see, planning to have the government come and take your rifles--or anybody else's. Handguns are a different matter--but even there I suspect it would not be worthwhile to try to do that.

But we could prohibit further sale of handguns--that would be a start.

And as far as your scenario of Bush's behavior, if he were totally bonkers enough to try a coup--likely only in the fevered imagination of the Left--his civilian opponents having their own weapons would not stop him.

What would in all probability do so is a likely mass mutiny on the part of the military--many of whom, like thinking beings everywhere, have had enough of Chickenhawk #1.

The military is not likely to support the continued reign of a person who has been no more than a tragic joke as a leader.

This is of course not surprising--consider the people on Mudcat who support him-- themselves no more than sad jokes--which they prove anew with every posting.