The Founders wanted the Second Amendment to make sure citizens were able to use lethal force against the state and federal government if necessary, in order to protect their freedom, and to otherwise provide for and defend themselves. This requires them to have whatever weapons which are capable of countering their opposition. The Founders knew well this meant ever increasing firepower, they were not stupid.

No, we do not have to, and if we want to remain free, we cannot remove the guns. You cannot possibly expect that if the citizens disarm, that the government and the nation's criminal underground will also disarm. Unless they do, we become slaves.

The problem is not the weapons, it is our lazy, incompetent society, full of people who can't be bothered to be personally responsible for their actions. We tolerate things from people today that are destroying us. Violence is merely one of many signs of our internal problems.

The good thing is that those problems can be solved, and without the need to disarm free people and turn them into slaves.

You worry about "25 clip uzis..." but don't seem to understand that they very reason there are so many is because the cowards carrying them use them to intimidate and terrorize UNARMED people. As soon as people are armed and trained to defense themselves, those cowards won't want to be anywhere near a gun. They also would not have easy access to the guns if we actually enforced decades old existing laws, and actually started punishing these losers for their crimes.

But no... instead we spend ten times as much money enforcing punitive laws to support corporate welfare, punishing people who have done nothing wrong, all because a bunch of uncreative morons want government mandated cashflow for themselves, even if it means destroying our freedom.

How about when people are irresponsible, we let them take the fall instead of bailing them out? How about instead of coddling a murderer and spending millions caring for them and trying to "figure out why they did it", we instead just shoot them and spend the money helping the victims?

There are a lot of solutions to violence that don't involve the undesirable, unattainable, and idiotic disarmament of free citizens.

There is not one single case in history where you are correct. 100% of them show the exact opposite of your utopian fantasy.

Criminals in areas where guns are illegal trade them on the black market, from overseas, or simply set up shop and make their own.

Or, shockingly enough, since no one is armed... they just use other weapons to do the same damn thing to their victims.

Unarmed "citizens" are slaves, always have been, always will be.

Notice that the top homicide rates are for countries with some of the most strict gun control laws. Looks to me like you proved the opposite of your stated point.

Not so shockingly, you are full of shyte. You are just repeating the same mythological bullshit you've been spoon fed and are dumb enough to believe.

In nearly ever jurisdiction where guns are banned, two things happen: increase in crime and loss of freedom. The criminals are still armed, only now they have little to fear from their victims.

Guy kills several people with a gun, and the idiots in our news media say "Gunman kills XYZ...".

However, see a guy kill a dozen with a knife, and it says "Man attacks shoppers..." or some other low key heading, and they don't mention the weapon used at all. Why aren't people who kill with knives called knifemen, or like the german guy who killed a couple dozen with a baseball bad not called batmen or clubmen?

Answer: because guns are used by citizens limit the power of government, and you have a lot of little dictators in government who can't handle the idea of an armed population telling them "Hell no", and enforcing it with lethality.

It has nothing to do with safety or concern over dead children, and the laws won't help any of that anyway. Never have, never will.

Its very simple: the people in power are corrupt and rotten, and the gun is a particular tool that can take them out of power or prevent an increase in their power.

Obama can squeeze out fake tears all day long, but the fact is he is only crying because we are still armed and it limits his power. That's why he and a lot of other little Hitlers and Stalins want to disarm the population.

A disarmed person is a slave.

Because unless your needs are pretty basic and you are willing to put up with various issues like lack of polish and features, you can't recompile "90% of what you need".

You cannot just "recompile" tons of software people need and use every day. I'd be thrilled if Linux could do half of what I need, but it can't.

Even when I have the source, that does not mean I can use recompiled versions. They may not work well, be poorly performing or debugged, or be missing features on the less mature platform. In fact, that's virtually guaranteed.

Open source is great, but the code base lacks a lot of critical, fun, and well polished applications that people use all the time, and most of the time the community is very hesitant to put in the work needed to make it so.

I would love it if everything I needed was open source and also high quality, but that's just not true, and probably won't be for years.

You are exactly right, and since atheists can't prove their position, we should not tolerate them.

Can we supply enough diesel to meet demand? Isn't it produced as a byproduct of gasoline production? What I read suggests that we could not keep up with demand.

The example I recently read about was a 1985 small car, 4 cyclinder, typically got around 24mph highway. 0-60 acceleration well over 15 seconds.

Fast forward to 2012 and you can buy a car with 600HP and a 5.9L engine, 0-60 in 3.5 seconds... and it gets 24mph highway.

Gee, do you think that possibly... being several times the size of any other vehicle and highly visible might help?

Also, some trucks can accelerate faster than a Chevette... just sayin'...

I drove one of those and there are a lot of places where you cannot safely merge, especially if hills are involved.

Sure we don't "need" race cars, but 200HP in a heavy car (all cars meeting current safety regs are heavy) is not even remotely overkill.

Low performance gets people killed all the time.

Wow, what an ignoramus you are. I'd almost be willing to agree if by religions you also included zealous atheists and other religions, but I bet you don't (yes, atheists, despite the name, preach, evangelize, and are zealous often far above and beyond any of those awful religious people, so let's ban them too).

A good number of these religious people you say are obviously very weak intellectually created the world's technology, including the technology allowing you to spout your ignorance here. Really, you'd appoint a guardian to people like that? The ones that made everything you depend on?

That does make any sense.

A smoker blows smoke into the air your breathe, and they stink, and their horrid breath carries the little bits of their excessive phlegm and smoke particles to you.

Peanut eaters don't blow peanuts all over me.

Yes, but the aircraft are not glued together in such a way they are impossible to repair.

The Apple/Airplane analogy would be what if the Boeing 787 had its engines glued to the wing so that if it needed an engine overhaul, you either had to replace both wings, or the entire aircraft.

Good points.

I have found that working for things I believe in, generally has also helped my survival a great deal. Most of the time when I am looking for work it is in military, research, or industry. I believe they are foundations of this country and need help, and whenever I work in those fields I'm generally happy. Yes there is all kinds of bullshit to deal with, but you get that wherever you go. Most of the shops I work for, they are generally focused and have well known goals and needs.

Every time I have strayed from that past, I've been fairly unhappy. In a couple of places I made a six figure income, and I was absolutely miserable. Management by whim, customers internal and external who were clueless but drove everything, managers who got raises by screwing everything rotten.

NOTE: I'm not saying you have to focus on those three areas to be happy and productive, that's just my particular choice, and doesn't include a few other qualifiers I have developed over the years. It just happens that much of the time those shops are in the "let's just get work done" category and I find they work better for me.

Wherever you try to apply for work, think long and hard about actually doing the work and what you are contributing to. That will tell you far more about how happy you will be and how secure you job will be than pay scales. Also remember that even seemingly minor differences in benefits can end up being worth 5, 10, 20K US dollars a year in pay. I took a job for $20K less than what I was making recently, but the benefits are worth over 25K more and all of them are cheaper and less money out of my own paycheck.