You failed history in school, didn't you? I think you need to go review every major armed conflict since WWII where we have tried to occupy a country. Especially countries that had an ideologically driven opposing force. Go do that and then come back and tell me that people with rifles and IEDs can't make a war with an advance military so unpalatable that they give up.

You're assuming that some of the military will not take the side of those fighting for their freedom. Also look how well insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have done before you write off a gorilla force with just small arms and IEDs.

Actually I make a very big deal about the second amendment because I care so much about the other amendments. The second is the last line of defense in the protection of the others. It is the only amendment that gives the people a physical recourse should the three branches of government fail to up hold the Constitution.

While were on the topic, the people that said they didn't want universal background checks because they feared a national registry could be constructed seem less like silly now, don't they?

Have you thought about trying a wiffle ball bat with a thin lay of foam on it? Sure you have run up and down the row or vehicles to make it work but it's 100% reliable and much cheaper.

They really, really, really wanted first post.

If we were to continue the analogy, these politicians would think it best to regulate the birth of children so the isn't even a possibility of a moron being elected.

Then it's not really child-proof... only child-resistant.

When I was in high school (late 90s) the "Computer Teacher" was really nothing more than a word processing teacher. All of the classes focused on teaching typing and some very basic computer usage. i.e what is RAM, HD, keyboard, mouse. I phished his password on the regular and he never knew I had it. I did it by having him unlock the computer so I could fix something. I would then install a key logger and re-lock the security software. Once that was done I would tell him that I forgot to make one more change, have him unlock it once more and then recover the password for the key logger.

I mostly used it for good. (fixing network printer mappings, repairing broken OS or network settings) About as mischievous as I got was was installing a first person shooter on a number of the computers and starting an underground FPS club that played during lunch.

Predators look for easy targets. You almost never see a lion go after the strongest members of the herd they're hunting. Any creature that has their self preservation instinct intact will retreat unless they are really desperate to win what ever prize they are after. Hence the show of force with a gun is often all that is needed to send a burglar running out the way they came in. They simply didn't bargain for that level of resistance. This is especially true if they didn't think anyone was home. On the other hand if the person that breaks into your house is mentally unstable or coked up out of their mind they may not have any self preservation instinct left and they will kill you unless you put them down. In that case it is better to have the best lethal firepower you can buy.

"I'm a mom, I have eyes in the back of my ass." -Ms. Tadpole

It's actually not as hard as you would think. From cover: Look for the guy that is firing indiscriminately at anything that moves, shoot him.

So self defense of life/property or rebelling against a government, if it tries to ignore the majority will of the people, are not legitimate uses of guns? Someone should have told our nation's founding fathers that before they started the revolutionary war. So many lives could have been spared...

I wish I had mod points for you. We have lived mostly peaceful lives here in the US up until the last 3 decades, during which we have molded our society into a culture of greed, selfishness and rampant hate.

Thank you! You're response is by far the best. I wish I could mod you up.

I have a question. Does the exploit work on Win 7 machines or just Win XP?

Yes I RTFAed. It doesn't really spell out what combo of IE and Windows are vulnerable.