So I was on a fishing forum and they were talking about Obama wanting more gun control, which never makes sense to me.  Anyhow, I got all ranty and figured I'd just copy/paste the thing here.  Enjoy!

Jesus. Government. Seriously.

You know what O's against? The Constitution as it was written. It's apparently irrelevant today, according to many people. Really? Something in the basis of all human nature changed in the last couple hundred years that made it any less relevant today than it was back then? Interesting. Then why was it relevant 550 years before the Constitution when it was called the Magna F-ing Carta? Why was it relevant another 120 years before that when it was called the Charter of Liberties? But no ... whereas the US Constitution limited the role of the Federal Government, The Big O is saying that it should say how the FEDERAL Government is going to provide for its people. And where does the Federal Government get the money to take care of us downtrodden Americans? Oh, that's right ... from those of us who work. From those of us who risk everything on a daily basis to make this country what it is.

Obama was on the radio discussing how he thought these her inherent flaws in the Constitution. Did people care about him thinking he's smarter than our forefathers? Did people actually pay attention to what the Constitution said and think for themselves? No. They decided they weren't going to have to worry about their mortgage or a car payment because he was going to bring "hope and change" to this country. They voted for the flashiest candidate. He sold them their snake oil and now all of our country's collective ailments are cured. But truly, what change is there? What HOPE is there? Not much. He's going to "help out the middle class" by taxing the sh!t out of their bosses so their wages go down and their privately-funded healthcare goes away. Hmm ... yeah, that's really helping out, isn't it?

Truly, though, both sides need to learn to butt the f#*k out of our business and understand that your role as our Government is pretty straightforward ... provide protection in the form of military and police. Either side of the aisle, however, has decided that they want to control everything, whether it's their business or not, they just have different methods. Don't like dem homos? Fine ... don't let them get married. Those people smoking weed are evil ... let's make sure we don't let them do that, either. What? People are trying to shoot guns? Well I know what we can do to stop that ... tax the f*#k out of the ammo. We need more money, still, though ... oh, smoking's no longer stylish ... let's tax the hell out of that! And they don't even disguise the fact that sometimes new taxes are implemented simply so they can decrease what they see as poor behavior. That's sick. The Government shouldn't tell us how to live our lives.

Another thing we have to learn ... AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY! Quit teaching that in your PUBLIC schools. This country was built as a Republic, not a Democracy. What's the difference? It may not be huge, but it's IMPORTANT. In America, as it was constructed, the rights of the INDIVIDUAL shall NEVER be taken away. Our FREEDOM is what people gave their lives for, and I am thankful every day for that. Therefore, the majority cannot vote in a law that will restrict the freedom of ONE person. In a straight democracy, however, majority rules. Two words for you: Smoking F-ing Ban. We voted into law legislation that allows us to tell a PRIVATE business owner what they can do in a building that they own ... on their own property. And why? For convenience. We don't want our clothes smelling like smoke. We don't want to breathe all of those evil carcinogens every time we go out to get wasted at a bar and then drive home. We don't want to have to smell everyone's ashtrays. What do we want to do? We want to tell a business owner what he can and cannot do on his own property. Sickening. And that's just where it starts, too. We can say that smoking is bad and justify this behavior by judging the smoker. But where does it stop? I'm sick of looking at fatties. Maybe we should outlaw overeating. I also hate left-handed people. I think that in the Bible it even said that they all worship Satan. They should be imprisoned until they are ambidextrous. This kind of thinking is ridiculous. The thought that we can tell people how to run their lives is utterly sickening.

We need to go back to what this country was built upon in the first place. We need smaller Federal Government. We need to clean House (and Senate, for that matter). We need to go through the laws and see which ones are about protecting people from others and which ones are about protecting people from themselves, then purge appropriately. Once we have the laws figured out, we need to punish the remaining ones HARSHLY, SWIFTLY and PUBLICLY. We need people to fail for themselves. We need people to understand that they have responsibilities too. We need a lot of things, but it would be an incredibly drastic change, a very painful process. We went through a very painful process after the Boston Tea Party, though. Rather than figuring out what we can get for free, why don't we figure out what we can do to make this world a better place? It's not by stealing someone's money and playing Robin Hood with it, I'll tell you that. And while we're at it, let's quit trying to tell everybody he was a hero rather than a common criminal.