We agree on more than you might think. Our primary difference is that I go beyond zero trust in politicians (government), I expect deceit.

Take the current abortion brouhaha for example. The Arab story of the camel's nose come to mind. Roe v Wade began with a widely acceptable "Safe, available and rare." It progressed to the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion where they drill a hole in a fully formed fetus while some portion of it is still inside the woman. While not fully legal everywhere I cite it as an example of progressive creep. Politicians and activists always want more than they claim in the beginning. ALWAYS.

There are gun control things that I might embrace if I trusted government. I recently looked at a web page that listed "registered firearms" by state. They gave a number for Arizona, a state that formally has no gun registration. Firearm sales records are illegally being maintained past the date they are to be destroyed. As per Snowden, the government collects data illegally and keeps it forever. Gun registration makes nobody safer; its only purpose is future gun confiscation.

When government, military and police want to ensure that you are helpless to resist the first thing they do is disarm you. History tells us we might not want to be fans of that. Red flag. It will be abused for political purpose. The objectionable changes with the swing of the political pendulum. I don't think that the average 2nd Amendment fan, at least the ones my age, are World at War video game fantasizers who want a 15-minute murderous fame. We are dying off and the media is doing a fine job of promoting pusillanimous hoplophobia so resistance to disarmament of citizens will diminish. For the sake of my grandchildren, I hope it is not the dystopia of tyrants that I foresee.

If only politicians could be trusted. But they can't