I do. Because these days it is far far safer than north of the border. Last published percentages for the million US Citizens that live full or part time in Mexico getting killed is 3 per hundred thousand. US in general closer to 4 Texas nearer 5 or 6 and Houston 12 per 100,000. Like anywhere else one stays away from the worst areas which is within 50 miles of the US/Mexico Border and you don't go to any bad parts of town on payday night.

When I cross the border to the North I go to the bank open the box and get out the permit and the permitted item.

The rest is propaganda and sensationalist crap based on out of date statistics which WERE at one time accurate during the height of the cartel wars.

In the 1970's I spent time in law enforcement, as a street cop. We learned then the Supreme Court had ruled on the following in the following ways. Police are not required to protect immediately unless they have knowledge in advance. They are or were required to follow up, investigate, make arrests and present same to the court system. The Court ruled citizens were responsible for protecting themselves. I do not know how this has changed in the intervening years. When that department was disbanded I went back into the military where it was safe! That was a federal police department one of (then) only four at that time. You know or should know it as the former Panama Canal Zone the department was installed as part of the Panama Canal Zone Government which along with the Panama Canal Zone Government operated that after the USA built the canal zone and up until the end of the treaty that gave it to Panama at no cost but with a lot of easy to steal funding that continued for some time. Two treaties one transferred title and the other set forth the method of transfer and subsequent responsibilities. One was USA responsibile for defense and security and required to maintain an open waterway for international trade. That led to the Noriega (Cara Pina) invasion when that dictator (one of a long long line of the same) attempted a closure. I don't know if that requriement exists anymore. The rest is history. It went to China then to Netherlands last I heard as financial backers of the locks, new third locks, rebuilt railway, and pumping station with trans continental pipelines. Funny I heard nothing from the eco-freaks about that part. I think Noriega probably executed them if they bothered to show up. LMAO. In any case it's all history...

"I have one and a carry permit. When I cross the border into the US I get both of them from the safety deposit box. When I prepare to leave they get locked up in the same place. I have no need of one outside the US."

The above came up in more than one form from more than one individual in more than one discussion. All of which occurred outside the US.

The two questions from other countries invariably go like this.

Q. What happed to the US it's such a fascist police state anymore?

A. The majority of the public voted for it.

Q. Any chance of a revolution?

A. No that already took place the other side won.

Q. But isn't your military supposed to keep that from happening as a last resort?

A. That was the theory. Yes they did take that oath. But I don't believe they think the public is worth the effort. If so sit would be a counter revolution. You see the majority keep voting to live in a fascist police state because - we are told - after 9/11 they want to feel safe.

Q. You mean the terrorists won?

A. To which terrorists are you referring?

Not my President. That would be John Galt. Once ObeyMe violated the Constitution he became something entirely different. Once he got elected twice so did the majority of the voting public. When I looked at the hand picked candidates in the recent series of charade elections so did the Government Party. I do NOT serve the party nor does it serve me.

Show me a Constitutional Centrist otherwise I'm part of the undervote.

Thank you for that well written and accurate summation. Some of you were worth those 24 years of serving the Constitution. Many do not realize soldiers take their oath only to that document not to country or population. Absent the Constitution two choices are left.

If it was set aside illegally then run a legal counter revolution as a sworn duty.

If it was set aside legally then make you own individual choice on where and how you choose to live.

Setting it aside either way absolves all members of the military from any further duty except in the first instance.

Unhappily many in the military ask the question is the country and it's population worth the effort. They see no moves by their leaders and precious little support from the citizens except for the 'paper or plastic have a nice day thanks for serving your country insincerities.' Granted that's not everyone - but it seem s to be a majority judging from their actions on voting day.

Took me 24 years of lugging a rifle to observe that lesson and a further number of years to let it sink in. There is little purpose in defending a nation that turns it's collective majority back on what the previous writer so eloquently provided.

little bit of home work. Cycle of Repression as run by a government as opposed to run by a group of rag tag rebels. Key words. Marighella, Uruguay Tupumaros Then think of phrases such as ''never let a good crisis go to waste.'' The originator is one of the street theater candidates in the quadrennial (sp?) big shoow.

Doing exactly what? to accomplish your last sentence? Let's hear some practical suggestions

Try reading the whole Constitution or even just the whole Second Amendment. It says nothing about what you want. It says everything about the reason for allowing citizens to be armed including what they are expected to do in exchange for that privilege. That's called responsibility.

Moot point. While some were out doing that others flushed our country down the drain. What I suggested is the last raggedy vestiges of what you have left and what you can do at the local level. While you can still take those actions.

Practically speaking? The Constitution was worth fighting for the citizens? Get real.