Don't give Obama any ideas. He'd could wipe the weapons to render them inoperable so a small handpicked force supplemented by regulars from Latin America could liquidate units loyal to the USA.

Is this even true? Criminals and depressed people may have poor impulse control, but it's a persistent problem. So the only practical implementation of your line of thought is lock all us in cells and take away our shoelaces, forever. Gun control is about limiting any action. Rolling Stone even recently had a feature that listed the victims of gun violence who were "senselessly" shot dead when they tried to mug, burgle, or rob.

What percentage of taxes goes towards essential infrastructure? Paying too much tax instead of investing in research, production, and employment is going to be worse for both the company and for society in general.

I look down on them because of their widespread bad business practices: the majority of the time you can expect price gouging and poor workmanship. They'd be better off working for Microsoft with that attitude.

The risks you mention are implausible--security in the White House certainly does not rely on metal detectors, for example--what you are really worried about is too much freedom. While random pat-downs are normal, and body scanners have a promising future, your best hope of security is getting surveillance cameras installed in every registered living area. Not only would contraband be detectable, but women and children would be protected, since 99% of domestic violence and sexual abuse happens behind closed doors. Telescreens are a common sense modern technology: 9 out of 10 Americans surveyed agree.

When will you be taking orders for the underwater-shoulder-fired missiles?

What, European governments can declare certain parties to be illegal. It's a controlled environment where the kids are allowed to goof around, but the controls are absolute.

They'd rather have a regressive tax on their customers than pay more tax on their large incomes and land holdings

Money is money. People who reason to support one tax will therefore support any and all of them.

Before the terrorists and pedophiles use it to hide their crimes.

More common, but also expensive. Thieves didn't attack people for their Livestrong bracelets or Crocs. Smart Phones and Air Jordans are high-value items to carry around

No doubt you are correct that the establishment of totalitarian states in many countries works quite well. Slavery sounds quite burdensome, but it's actually the easiest thing in the world.

If everything sent on the internet is public then I am owed a lot of porn.

Abortion is a socialist policy. QED

I think you had the Cold War and 9/11 making people willing to give up rights to protect their government from attack, and plastic guns aren't something that even most gun enthusiasts relate to. Now the government is trying to take away the guns people own and prevent them from buying them as part of the Democrat road map to a total prohibition, and it's now or never for the frog to jump out of the boiling pot.

As for airplanes, I think most people recognize them as a private vehicles, rather than public places, and thus not free zones. There is more cognitive dissonance with the "guns are bad" people on this issue, since they love seeing men with "military grade" assault weapons at airports, and enthusiastically support air marshals armed with "automatic pistols" with "high-capacity" magazines