Sounds and reads like reconstituted NRA propaganda.
Facts can do that at times, especially if facts are contrary to a political philosophy, a philosophy that holds the true meaning of the Second Amendment in contempt. History has happened, it's been clearly documented, & can be easily verified.
Believe it or not, I'm all for the Second Amendment - in its truest form. A "right" to properly organize a militia against governmental tyranny should be commonplace in every nation.
In it's purest form, "you" are the Militia.......the individual can be a Militia , that is until it joins up with another, then they become a Militia of two (2), then they join up with another, etc, etc, etc. It always starts with one (1).
Owning a gun does not give anyone the right to be an ass with it.
Exactly, but if you do no harm to your fellow citizen, government should leave you be. If you break the law, and as you call it, you become an "ass" with guns, then you should be held accountable to the rule of law. Until then though, government's only business is to observe, serve, and protect.
What gets me is no matter how violent America has become or exponentiated that violence there has to be gun control and regulation and contrary to so many paranoid 'Mercia gun owners it is not some kind of government ploy to circumvent the Second Amendment.
If no one is doing wrong by breaking the law to cause harm to his fellow citizens, there is no need for regulation, and government/politicians needn't create regulations to fulfill their self-serving need(s) to exist. Regulations for the sole sake of regulation is the grass roots of tyranny.