That's the root of the whole problem - that there is no accessibility to fed reps - and all the more reason to send the power back to the states and disband the fed gov't, cept for defense and a few other things. If you look at the ratio of people to fed congresspeople at the founding (1791) versus today, it's astronomically higher. Of course they can't respond to people's needs - there's just flat no possible way to have the time to do it. They must of necessity go by polls and general thrust of correspondence only. If they get a fax, letter, email, or anything else, if you're lucky, some staffer will put a "X" in either the "pro" or "con" column on the computer file for the "gun issue", or something similar. If we don't start returning power to the states, then as the population continues to grow, the people will become more and more dissident, which will lead to revolution - look around the world, folks. There are two main causes of the fighting: (1) religion, mostly moslem "jihad" against non-moslems; and (2) strongly centralized gov'ts piss off the people in the provinces so much so that they just won't take it anymore. If we don't cut back on the fed gov't (and tax burden thereof), the South will truly rise again - and as most of you know, war really is hell.
