Live by the gun. Die by the gun.
Amendment II
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
I am sure that our Founding Fathers had no intention that every raving lunatic should be able to aquire any sort of gun he or she should want. If I remember history, the intention was to allow each State to form a militia for self defence. Again, if I remember correctly, some of the delagates to the Constitutional Convention had concerns that too much power was being given to the Federal Government, and some balance should be struck.
Unfortunatly, the NRA, firearms manufacturers and other gun nut groups have convinced people that their interpretation of the Second Amendment is the correct one, and anyone that wants a gun should have one.
The Arizona horror should disabuse us of this falacious notion.
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