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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
uh huh. from what i've looked up there is nothing that shoots anything near as quickly or as accurately as what we have today. and sure, its a principal but i doubt that when it was written they were thinking about what guns would be like 200 years later. meanwhile more and more people will die to protect your unlikely scenario.
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Unlikely scenario? First of all, it's unlikely BECAUSE of the 2nd amendment. THAT is why our forefathers put it in. To make sure that it remains an unlikely scenario. Read up on history throughout the world. The first thing all of the oppressive and tyrannical governments did was disarm the general population. That's a fact.
Also, just because Americans has lived in a
relatively peaceful, stable society, without major civil unrest towards our Gov't does not mean it can never happen. Look around the World man, it's constantly "on fire". It happens a lot.
We're just so conditioned and desensitive to it because we see it all as "3rd world problems", that could never possibly occur here in our safe, democratic, US of A, from our freedom-loving and citizen-loving elected Government.
Americans are fairly ignorant in this regard; we don't realize just how fragile freedom and "civilization" really are. It doesn't take much to throw everything off it's axis.
We've seen it play out on smaller scales (LA Riots, Katrina in New Orleans, etc). Just imagine it on a massive scale, for whatever reason. Do you want the only ones with guns to be criminals and the government? Sorry, I do not. The common, law-abiding man has an inalienable right to protect himself, his family and his country.
About "more and more" people dying. Do your homework and stop believing everything you hear on so-called news agencies like MSNBC. Tougher guns laws have NEVER equaled less violence or death. NEVER. People are always going to kill other people. No matter what. It's in our nature unfortunately. Cars, drugs and hammers all each kill more people a year than guns in this country. It's a fact.
The entire argument for taking away law-abiding citizens' guns is based on EMOTIONAL reactions to specific tragic instances (where the "gun" was not the reason for the deaths), whereas upholding the 2nd Amendment is based on rock-solid principles and facts.
I have a brand new AR sitting downstairs underneath my bed. It's been there about 3 weeks now and hasn't killed anyone. Maybe it's dysfunctional and I should take it back for a refund, no?