how many of you CA residents plan to register your "assault rifles"

[Straw Man]

56. Perhaps you meant "boar" -- or was that a pun?

As I said people with guns tend to support oppressive government.

Rarely does one encounter such a vague and unfounded generalization. Guns = Oppression. How much more reductive could you get?

As has been pointed out, many of your historical references are sketchy to the point of being misleading. I have never heard so many rationalizations for an oppressive policy (the disarmament of the general public) couched in so much pseudo-liberationist rhetoric.

The largest revolution in history was led by a little man wearing a diaper whilst preaching non-violence.

Gandhi wasn't facing a Hitler or a Pol Pot. What chance would his non-violent revolution have stood there? And as has been pointed out, many other factors were involved in Indian independence.

Here is Gandhi in 1930:

And why do I regard the British rule as a curse?

It has impoverished the dumb millions by a system of progressive exploitation and by a ruinously expensive military and civil administration which the country can never afford.

It has reduced us politically to serfdom. It has sapped the foundations of our culture, and, by the policy of disarmament, it has degraded us spiritually. Lacking inward strength, we have been reduced by all but universal disarmament to a state bordering on cowardly helplessness.

-- Gandhi's First Letter to Lord Irwin

And I sincerely think that calling Gandhi a "little man wearing a diaper" is at best culturally tone-deaf and patronizing, and at worst ... well, never mind.