I guess the point I am trying to make is that all these stupid laws (again, not just gun laws) come down from a select few. They are enforced by a larger but still small group. They are applied to a very large population that generally agrees that most of these things are a bad idea.
Prohibition - they took the booze away and everyone kept drinking anyway. Eventually, it was repealed. It was a silly law brought forth by a very vocal minority.
I guess it's in everyone's nature to be mindless robots and do everything they are told without any regard to it's justified or not.
The fact is that they could pass a law calling for uncompensated confiscation tomorrow. Most people would turn them in with no trouble. A few holdouts would talk big but would pretend they "didn't get the memo" once the SWAT team showed up at their door. And then they'd talk bigger once the SWAT team left.
So law enforcement and the population, together making up 99.9% of the population, will mindlessly do exactly what the other .1% tell them to do, every time. We're all guilty - not just the "enforcers" of the law. I'm not picking on anyone here - just stating what I believe to be our true nature these days.
This puzzles me. It also bothers me that we're terrified of what our government is going to "do" to us. It's supposed to be the other way around. And on the few occassions when people do organize, protest, and make their collective wills well known, they are surprisingly effective.
