George Orwell, thou shouldst be living at this hour

I know that there is no reasoning with American gun nuts, and that by now they are already working on several different apologies for what follows. But to the rest of us...

The National Rifle Association wants an armed policeman in every American school and compulsory registration for every person diagnosed with a mental illness. All because unfettered gun ownership is so much on the side of Freedom. And because they are so very very opposed to Big Government.