[fabsroman]

I agree with government changing with the people. Problem is if the majority is a nightmare. What if the majority of people in the US, 51% wanted to pass a law allowing the use of crack coccaine for personal purposes? Life gets a little complicated. The majority is not always right on issues.

Another thing that I found somewhat interesting was an AOL poll that was done when the assualt weapon ban was scheduled to fall into the sunset (i.e., the sunset provision within the bill itself). The poll asked how many people were in favor of it going away and the majority were. The poll also asked how many people had owned a gun at some point in their life and I believe it was close to 80% that answered they had owned a gun in their life. Somehow, I don't think it is the majority of people speaking out on the .50 BMG in California, but merely a couple of people that have influenced the legislature. I am surprised that Arnold signed the bill.