Consider the following dialogue: Hansel: The recent spate of mass shootings by deranged individuals shows that it is much too easy for the wrong people to obtain guns in our country. Restrictions on the sale and transfer of guns should be tightened. Gretel: Oh, so you want us to live in a tightly controlled police state where individuals have no power and the central authority controls everything? Well, that was how things were done in the Soviet Union—and look what happened to them. In this exchange, Gretel refutes