I am more than a little put out by the suggestion that opponents of gun control are less intelligent or educated than others. I am surprised to find the English (or British) blindly supporting gun control outside the pages of the more downmarket newspapers. But perhaps the most dangerous thing I see said here is an expression of support for the proposition that in a democracy it must always be democratic for the (appropriate) majority to be able to alter the constitution. That way lies an even greater possibility of oppression than the oppression so widely already practised by the successful or popular against the unsuccessful or unpopular on which I have already commented. To take away the constitutional rights generally of the minority must be an even greater betrayal of the huddled masses, downtrodden, sick and poor who were once eagerly sought to populate a new land than simply to remove their power physically to rise up against their oppressors. Freedom of speech is most worth defending when what is to be said is unpopular - and I think the analogy is obvious.