yup. take the means of self defense from the law abiding citizens, and the threat of retaliation away from lawless criminals, and all human nature’s problems will be solved. liberal logic is beautiful in it’s madness.
not to mention that the history of evil dictatorships expanding their power with the “noble” task of disarming the citizens. i wonder why the founders felt the need to protect such a right...
Fortunately, the Bill of Rights was added to the original compact - if that had not been done, we would have lost our right to keep and bear arms long ago (or, more likely, seen another conflict between Americans defending their constitutional rights and a federal government intent on destroying them). Unfortunately, even the 9th and 10th Amendments have proved unable to stop (or recently, even to slow) the depredations of power-hungry federal officials...