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I saw the "natural hazards" bit above and wanted to chime in. The founding fathers did not write the second ammendment to protect individual's right to bear arms. That never even occured to them. The Second Ammendment was written so that large groups of people (milita) could train with their weapons and exist as a coheisive fighting force. Back then, individuals with guns couldn't make a difference in a war, that's even more true now. The Second Ammendment was meant to protect the people's right to form military units with military weaponry that could fight against a real military and be sucessful. People being eaten by bears had nothing to do with it. Back then no one even thought of gun control in terms of private defensive or sporting use. It was about having a state by state force that could fight the federal government if it ever became tyrannical.
By it's intent, the Second Ammendment ONLY protects Millitary weapons. If we stayed true to its intent, we could all own rocket launchers and assault rifles, but would have to look elsewere for a target rifle. The second ammendment really isn't applicable to the modern world, I think we need to look somewhere else for answers to the gun control mess.
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