I don't get all the resistance to putting a cop in schools

[JDPriestly]

99. Sounds like you have a yen for a police state.

Let's see. I bet you like the idea of armed guards at our border protected by barbed wire fences. We would be so safe. But maybe not safe enough.

Maybe we should add some towers so that the guards can see wide and far with their high-power binoculars. And they need radio communication with the tanks stored a few feet behind the fence and of course rifles just in case mobs of troublemakers try to enter (or escape).

Everybody has a passport, and woe be to the person caught without one on his or her person.

To be really safe, we should make sure every financial transaction over $10,000 is copied to the authorities. (Woops! That's the way it is now.)

Plus guests in hotels will be spied upon, especially "furriners," and especially, especially those weirdos who talk funny, wear funny clothes and have suspicious-looking skin.

Then of course the police will read your e-mails, get your Netflix information, check through your bags at the airport and occasionally even on trains. Oh, and when you travel by train, the ticket-taker will look under your seat as well as at your ticket. Wouldn't want to miss anybody trying to sneak in or out of the country.

Your phone is, of course, tapped by the police just to make sure no one is plotting against the government and also to get those handy little details about who is meeting up with whom -- possibly for a romantic rendez-vous. Never know when that kind of information can come in handy. Many a dangerous person has been stopped because gossip about his extramarital you-know-who was made public. Wow! Should have seen his wife. She was furious.

Takes almost nothing to get a warrant to tap phones in a country in which the children wear uniforms to schools guarded with guns.

Add surveillance drones entertaining you during the parties in your back yard. (You won't even know they are there. They are so small, and make you so safe.)

Oh, and there will be a special number that you can call to report any suspicious goings-on at the neighbors. Is Mr. Anderson lounging in his skivvies with a lady friend by his backyard pool on Sunday again while his wife is at her mom's? Better report that. Woops! How were you to know that lady is his sister? Well, I guess now you do.

The East Germans tried so hard to keep their citizens safe. Just imagine how safe the East Germans would have been had their police had the equipment we have today.

Instead of a chicken in every pot, a gun at ever table. Instead of a crucifix on every wall, a gun on every wall.

Sounds like Wayne La Pierre's fondest dream.

But it isn't mine.