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Jesus, owning guns doesn't automatically equate to 'red-neck-rise-up-against-oppressor-with-my-kalashnikov-ness'
The Constitution reflects a healthy distrust against the concentration of power. The Second Amendment is just a further reflection of that.
And I'm not okay with random diplomats 5,000 miles away agreeing to take away my small arms over some vague notion of 'guns are bad.' Just like how the First Amendment must entail assholes like the Westboro Baptist Church poo-pooing over peoples' funerals, the Second Amendment also comes with its costs. There is also yet to be a conclusive study of gun bans and decrease in violent crime.
Many gun owners are moderates who won't scream 'hitler,' but realize injustices when they see one.
I'd also like to add that the right of self-defense transcends all this hoopla, and is supported by the UN Charter.
Finally, I'm disappointed that people will use such imprecise thinking as to equate guns = 'Right Wing Nutjob.'
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Originally Posted by Lieber Code on the laws of war
"Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God."
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