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1We need a Grand Unified Theory. I like to talk to my local LPR / Liberal Public Radio people and tell them we should get together. Liberals are traditionally supposed to be suspicious of the government and appreciate the benefit of having our freedom protected by a written Constitution. But in recent years they have soured on that idea somewhat, now that we conservatives have won some recognition for the Dreaded Second Amendment. The Supreme Court said we can have guns, now shortly we will all be dead. The only question is, will blood run in the streets for 200 miles as high as the horses' bridles, or only up to the stirrups? Of course, the truth is, more guns, less crime; if the liberals in politics and the news industry would pay attention to their fellow liberals in academia, the debate would pretty well be over. Liberals don't trust the government, and conservatives don't trust the government, now if we could put our mutual suspicions into a Grand Unified Theory and put some restraint on the excesses of the government that we have now, we ought to be able to build a better life for all. Right now, the debate is about background checks. IMHO, they could write a background check law, without including registration of guns, but they won't. And the law could specifically include a statement that anybody who can pass the background check today cannot be prosecuted for owning an un-registered gun. And if they did that and did a good job of it, we would probably have no reason to oppose such a law and it would pass - which is what they claim to want. Instead they write bills like the Brady Law, over 1000 pages of who knows what; lots of verbiage, plenty of room to hide stuff - never let the hicks and rubes find out what they really want to do. If there are any physicists reading this, they have over a century of experience trying to develop a G. U. T., maybe they can help with this one Gun control is supposed to be like driver licenses and car registration. Well, a person with an ordinary driver license can legally drive any vehicle except big trucks and buses and such, so, anyone who can legally own a gun should be allowed to use any gun (probably should include full auto but if it does not, the principle still holds). If my car is dead, I can borrow a car from anyone silly enough to lend it to me and drive it wherever it will go (the police harassed me for about an hour once for doing that but in the end they had to let me go); same with guns.