Originally Posted by Rochard

And... What? The people will rise up and defeat the strongest military power in the world with their little assault rifles?

This is comical - Was the 2nd Amendment created to protect the people from the government, or the government from the people? Was it "deterring a tyrannical government" or "suppressing insurrection". If we decided we had tyrannical government and decided to over throw them, wouldn't "we" become the very insurrection the 2nd Amendment was meant to prevent? There are people out there like Alex Jones that believe we have tyrannical government, and that our government lies to us, and tries to take away our rights - Shouldn't they over throw the government by this point? Isn't Alex Jones and his followers leading the "insurrection" and shouldn't use our firearms to "suppress" him?

I believe our founding fathers had the best of intentions when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. With that said, we didn't have semi automatic weapons then. They had no idea that we would have millions of people armed with semi automatic weapons pointing them each other - and slaughtering innocent school children in bulk.