Quote Originally Posted by Midwest View Post
Incidentally, the policians seem to be focused on taking certain guns from the common man and leaving them only in the hands of police/military (and of course their bodyguards)..
On this point - there was a time when I lived in California when my family had received credible death threats from specific individuals. I was at the time licensed to carry a firearm, one of the < 20 "normal" citizens in a county of ~1.25 million people to have been able to jump through the hoops. This wasn't all that helpful though - I could not be with my family 24x7 however, and my mother and father lived in a different location in CA and had also been specifically threatened with death.

Luckily, I wasn't a "common man", and was simply able to avail myself of the same solution available to all California politicians and wealthy folks: I hired several armed protective teams to watch the people at risk. It was just money. Lots of money. (Sometime I'll post the hilarious story of the poor random burglar who picked the wrong day to try to break into my mother's garage during this time period...)

I'll always be able to protect myself, with teams of trained guys with plenty of weapons, wherever I go, just by throwing money at the problem.

The rest of you...may not. Good luck with that.