In all three of your opening items, I noticed you used the word "control". You are exactly right, the government wants control. Unfortunately, it's not for what you think. They DO NOT have our best interests in mind. The DO NOT care about much else other than control and power.
Our country is not a Democracy. It was designed as a Republic and is supposed to be small government for the people, by the people. Our founding fathers feared a Democracy and that is why they gave us the right to bear arms . . . to protect ourselves from that control if it got . . . out of control.
Just my two and a third cents worth.
