Comment Re:Inevitable (Score 1) 375
The 2nd Amendment is also very specific. It unquestionably states that the militia that everybody keeps talking about must be 'well regulated.' That does NOT mean that any loser can have an AR-15. It means that if you are interested in defending your country you may feel free to arm yourself.
Sadly, most of the people in the gun lobby have no interest in defending their country. Intead they are looking to defend principles and property. And not from tyranny. People who feel the need to be armed to the teeth live in fear, and I do not understand. And sadly, this has nothing to do with naivete, but instead experience.
If the government can't manage gun control, which is something gun lovers regularly point out, then how do they expect them to regulate a militia, let alone do it well. That people don't see that guns are the problem in this equation is more troubling than actual people with guns. Do you see any murders in the military using tanks or M-16s? The largest concentration of weapons in the world (excluding Charlton Heston's sock drawer), and nothing ever happens for two reasons: having been in the military, I can assure you that it was WELL REGULATED, and that I was taught something that no pawn shop owner can teach any angry kid or postal worker.
And you know what? If you want to find out what it is, feel free to put your name on the dotted line.
Until the U.S. Government takes an active roll not in determining who gets guns, but instead to teach qualified people to respect the responsibility of owning one, we will continue to have kids and day traders go on rampages.
Wanna plan? You may keep your gun at your house, but you have to go to a real, genuine militia-affiliated shooting range to shoot it. And you get training, and you can train your 3 year old and do whatever you want. But you get no bullets unless you feel the need to hunt. All the bullets are kept in a vault at your little clubhouse. Of course that's the first place the Blue Berets will look, so keep them under the clubhouse matress with that dogearred Playboy.
