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I am no conspiracy buff, but history shows that some elite or other will always try to gain control over a peasantry and to reduce free citizens to the level of peasants and serfs. Also, that is almost always the real reason behind restrictions on guns. It was true when, after the Civil War, southern states passed laws that were designed to keep freed slaves from being armed, the better to make things safe for the KKK'ers when they came calling with ropes and whips. It was true when the Sullivan Law of NY was passed to make sure that only Tammany Hall thugs would have guns in NYC. It was true when the Japanese Shogunate stripped everybody but the Samuri of swords in 16th Century Japan, and it will be true in this country if we don't keep up the fight. Remember, we have to win every fight, and cannot afford "reasonable" compromises. The gun banners only have to win occasionally, and, eventually, we will all be unarmed peasants, at the mercy of our political rulers.