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The second amendment is the most disproportionately hyped amendment... The original rationale of allowing the people to overthrow the government if need be is no longer relevant. Military capabilities just radically exceed anything you could counter with over the counter firearms. The notion that a gun provides for self defense is highly suspect. Most studies show that it actually makes you less safe, not more. Even if it was effective for self defense, stranger violence practically doesn't exist at all in the US. Your odds of being murdered by a stranger are approximately 1 in a million each year... So, it basically just comes down to people like guns because they think they're cool or they have some insecurity they're trying to make up for or whatever.
So, fine, we get it. Some people like guns and the right to have them is protected by the constitution. Cool beans. Nobody is trying to take away the right to have guns, they just don't want you to use them responsibly and to put some limits on them in high population density places where it's really easy for a stray bullet to hit somebody. No big deal, just chill out and focus your energies on something useful instead...
let me clue you in-who is going to tell the army to attack citizens
say its a majority of congress
how long would the civil war last if those members of congress all got a 30-06 lobotomy.
To say no one is trying to take guns away is such a blatant lie it disqualifies you from having any credibility on this subject. There are dozens of politicians in congress and the senate who have stated they want to ban guns. DIane FeinSwine admitted that if she had the votes in 1994, the federal government would have confiscated ALL semi autos which includes a majority of 22 rifles, pistols and half the shotguns used in sporting clays and skeet.