"We would never allow the government to have that much control over any of our rights.In other words, we just don't trust the bastards!"

Is this true though? Your government, like ours on the UK is not acting in the best interests of the citizenry but largely for corporate gain, a gradual take over of governance which is virtually complete (as the failure in Rio demonstrates), unaccountable and not concerned with social responsibility.

If the US is awash with guns so the citizens can hold the government to account, then you've all been fast asleep, or (as with us here), have been conned so throughly the penny's only just beginning to drop.

Lock and load.