you would be making a huge mistake to tie this to an ART BELL show. I have a PhD. in history.  I have been a student of history and western civilization my whole life I am qualified enough to tell you that arms in the hands of citizens  Are a fundemental threat to tyranical oppresive goverments.  ALL of the worlds genocides are no more then TWO (2) degrees of seperation from arms control from the hands of private citizens. Those citizens after being disarmed beacame subjects , after the subjegation they were exterminated. for you to fail to realize the true severe nature of your un educated experience/ opinion and for you to failure to realize that all that is needed for Evil to triumph over good honest men , is that Good men do nothing.  you call it paranoia from where you sit...... my view is more in focus and uses historical FACTS .... Sir , What you sadly call paranoia is truly a heighted sense of perception.   If you have any questions about any thing please feel free to PM me, we all are entitled to our own opinons , but we are not entitled to our own set of FACTS. I find it rather hard to believe that someone with a PhD in history thinks what you just wrote.