Gidgette....would you please cite for me where in the health care bill that it takes away your right to bear arms.

If you want to convince others that seceding is a good idea, you might start out by learning how to spell what it is you want to do. Gives you a certain credibility, which otherwise is lacking. Also, it helps to cite proper facts. For example, the bill is not over 20,000 pages in length, it is 906 pages long. Undoubtedly, it contains features that shouldn't be in there, and I agree with you that unrelated features, or poorly conceived features, should be altered or removed. Congress has the ability to make such revisions, which is why they don't chisel bills into stone tablets. Much easier with paper. Nobody is coming to take away your arms. However, you really don't need an automatic combat rifle with 30-round clips to hunt squirrels, rabbits or deer, and there's some merit in not selling guns and ammo to people with criminal records or severe mental conditions. And if you think you'll be able to take on the federal government with an assault rifle, you're sadly mistaken. In a pinch, they have tanks, jets and these new thingies called drones.

That's my point. All 50 states have petitions, but the majority of them have only a few signatures. Even Texas has only a tiny percent of the population that has signed. The city of Austin has a petition to secede from Texas. I'm sure that you can get signatures on a petition that would outlaw peanut butter.