Snell: Waking the dragon - How Feinstein fiddled while America burned

<img src="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/iowastatedaily.com/content/t... align="right">Gun people don’t trust anti-gun people because anti-gunners always talk about <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/07/us-usa-guns-poll-idUSBRE9160LW... percent</a> of Americans supporting this gun control measure, or 65 percent supporting that one, as if a majority opinion is what truly matters in America. We don’t trust anti-gun people because you think America is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy">democracy</a>, when it’s actually a constitutional federal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic">republic</a>. In the American system, the rights of a single individual are what matters and are what our system is designed to protect. The emotional mob does not rule in America.

see http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/article_1c144792-b36d-11e2-8ac6-00...
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