"We invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over five or six different countries, all to keep Americans safe. We’ll torture people. We gotta do whatever we can to keep Americans safe."*
Unless the threat is an American with a gun. Him we will protect up until the day he shoots 9 good people at church or 20 kids and 6 adults at school or 32 young adults at college. We will willfully protect that shooter based on a spurious reading of the second amendment. We won't count the cost of the lives taken by that shooter. We love our guns more than we love the 3-year old kid who shot himself with his mother's unsecured gun and we must love his mother too, because she's not charged with criminal negligence or depraved-heart indifference to the security of her child in the presence of her beloved gun.
I say "we" because we live in a democracy, and the majority has decided that "we" must all accept these massacres as the price of their freedom to own guns.
Protection from Islam: $Trillions
Protection from the Tyranny of Obamacare: $Millions
Protection from your fellow American with a gun: $0. Nada. Zip.
I'm for gun control.
*Jon Stewart said this.