You're BOTH right, and you've been successfully manipulated into disagreeing.

Today's Republican and Democratic parties ARE essentially the same salad, with different dressings. They take their marching orders from what are essentially the same folks, while paying lip service to the people in their respective "camps."

And it works frightfully well.

Currently, it's something like this:
1. Tragedy occurs.
2. Side A drums up propaganda to create new laws.
3. Side B creates halfhearted, but apparently ironclad, resistance to side A, but calculatedly fails in propaganda war.

Result: Further defections to side A, despite law's ineffectiveness. Stage set for second tragedy, cycle begins anew. Objective of Control met.

(subplot): Side B gets everybody worked up over threat that fails to materialize. Side B looks like 'kooks.' Further defections to side A. Further objectives of Control emplaced.

Paranoid? Maybe. But why is it nobody ever seems to check the interrelationships of so many folks who "seem" to be on opposite sides.. like when Clinton was letting Bush's CIA use Arkansas airfields for CIA business?

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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson

The Christian's Guide to Small Arms

and this one also from the same fine folks at the Gospel Plow where the phrase "God bless guns" is taken literally:

Small Arms Tactics and Individual Weapon Systems as it concerns Christian Freemens

Now everyone can see how far the 7.62 NATO round can penetrate the basic heathen and or infidel, which if you don't know it, is just about everyone.

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It's no use. I guess I'll have to leave all my money to the Egg Advisory Council. Eggs have gotten quite a bad rap lately, you know, Smithers.
~C. Montgomery Burns