We start a new year with legislation that puts us $4 TRILLION more in debt.  A great start and supposedly this is a win for the Democrats?  Let's see, this was basically about extending the Bush tax cuts, something the Democrats were so against when they were enacted.  Apparently they have changed their tune and think they are great and had to be extended for 98% of Americans.  Well, they were only extended for 99% of Americans since they went after those making $400/$450,000 a year instead of those making $200/$250,000 a year.  They called for a balanced approach yet for every $41 in increased tax revenue, they only cut $1 in spending.  Yep, that's balanced!  Some days I don't want to get out of bed in the morning because of all the stupidity I must face.

Senator Diane Frankenstein of (surprise!) California will be introducing anti-gun legislation with a myriad of proposals to strip the rights of law abiding gun owners.  She'll basically throw everything against a wall to see what sticks.  Her proposal would ban the sale, transfer, importation or manufacturing of:

• 120 specifically-named firearms
• Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one miltary characteristic
• semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds

Although weapons possessed on the date of enactment will be grandfathered in, her proposal would require people like me to register each weapon under the National Firearms Act which would include:

• background check of each owner or transferee 
• type and serial number of the firearm
•  positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint
•  certification from local law enforcement of identity and possession would not violate State or  local law

Interestingly enough, it currently costs $200 to register a current NFA item.  Any surprise there will be a cost to this?  Imagine the cost of registering a dozen guns!
So I ask you dear reader, what in the above will stop another theater or school shooting?  Naturally, you won't be able to point to any thing that will.  This is simply the left wing liberals using a tragedy to strip law abiding citizens of their rights, the goal of a certain party.  The government wants our guns, plain and simple, but they know they cannot take them away so they want to limit what we can own.  The largest army in the world today is comprised of the collective of America's gun owners.  Believe me, this administration knows that.
Do you find it a wee bit scary that half this country looks to our government as their great protector and believe that government knows what is best for us?  Some say we don't need ANY guns at all because we have a governement and army to protect us and that the 2nd Amendment was only written because we didn't have a standing army and it provided for militias.   Now that is scary!
You may feel this is all insignificant and you may even feel this is the right thing to do.  You are certainly entitled to your own opinion as I am mine.  However, looking at history, those without guns have been the ones who have been enslaved as well as the victims of genocide.  Ask those people who did not have the ability to defend themselves against a tyrannical government if that was a good thing or not.  If we are to defend ourselves against tyranny, we must have weapons that give us the capability to do so.  If we all had muskets these days, we would already have lost many of our rights, I assure you.