I've been closely watching the news the last couple of nights, and I'm more convinced than ever that "corporate" interests and the global moneychangers are picking our pockets, and effectively using our own government to do it.

The failure of the your government to renew the ban on assault weapons is the perfect example. The international trade in highly deadly small arms is much too large, certainly too powerful to be denied a lucrative market in the U.S. It's amazing to me that serious sporting shooters have allowed themselves to be used by the gun lobby to promote a point of view that cannot be justified. They are working for their own enemies, and don't even know it.

Most of the people I know, who are undying supporters of the NRA, believe that someday they may have to form a militia to protect us all from some unseen threat, or that we may have to take back our government from tyrants. I have a news flash for them, if it comes to war in the streets in America, the folks in power have weapons available to deal with it. Weapons that will make those small arms useless, weapons we have paid for, and the money is going to the same folks that are pushing the assault weapons into our streets, folks with many friends in high places.

We have also learned that their threshold for justifying the use of those powerful weapons is not all that low.

All we are left to do is shoot each other, in the streets with assault weapons.

The Republican Party really wants you to think of government, in nearly all its forms, as the enemy, or at least as your adversary. If you really need govenment, its best run by people, just like you, that don't really trust the folks in Washington. My friends, I think it is OUR GOVERNMENT, not theirs. The only voice we have in the way our county and our world operates is through our government.

I know the promise of America is something much greater than we are getting. I say throw the rascals out!