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Originally Posted by FS
I think Chojin makes a very valid point when he questions just how often a gun in civilian hands actually does any good. The only situation I can imagine is when you hear someone trudging through your house at night and you can get to the living room silently enough to get the drop on him. And still the outcome would be difficult to predict.
Not being born in a country where it's a constitutional right to own a gun, it's as alien to me as a native greeting where you both put your fingers in your ears and bash your foreheads together. But when I hear gun discussions going on, the pro side sooner or later starts sounding like insane, paranoid hermits living in a shack in the woods away from civilization, that's plotting to kill them. Like you all sleep with one eye open and a hand on the gun beneath your pillow, ready to jump out and spray the room with bullets at the first unlucky burglar that tries to breach your kingdom. Not to mention the kind of paranoia when you say you don't trust only the government with the right to bear arms. What, they're going to declare national martial law and enslave everyone to the salt mines of Xyr the moment everyone's forced to turn in their glocks?
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I tend to agree, but in the US it IS a constitutional right, and not one of those ones they tacke don later, but one that they thought was so important, they only wroote 1 amendment before they got to the one about letting citizens own the same weapons our soldiers do.
And that toally is the point. Amendment 2 in the Bill of Rights was written with the intention that our government wouldn't be able to tyrannize us with its military. It was written so that the US could never become a police state.
And if you don't like it, you should probably save up and move to a country that has a less paranoid birthright, because as many restrictions as may get passed, firearms will never be banned in the US.
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Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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