Without guns, this nation would not exist. We defended our rights of liberty from the king in England. We have defended in may wars since. We have assisted others in defending their rights. When I went into the Army, me and the men from the south were far superior shooters to those from the cities of the north and east. They could not hit a lake if they fell out of a boat. We on the other hand, could fire almost any weapon they taught us and shoot it expertly right away. The one thing I had to learn was to use a pistol. I had already been shoot large caliber rifles for years when I went into the Army at 18. Guns kept this nation free. They ARE FOR KEEPING A GOVERNMENT FROM RULING US. Sadly, most idiots today WANT the government to rule and lord over them. If America had had these fools in he 1700, 1800s, we would have lost and still belong to England. We would have lost WWI and there would have been no WWII. We might even be under Nazi rule right now. But, thankfully, many have defended these right, from dictators in Sodom on the Potomac.
These fools were around then; they were ''loyalists''. Roughly a third of the population, which I suspect is similar to the numbers we have today. The main difference is the loyalists didn't control the flow of information as they do today. It's their ability to influence the unwashed that has weakened the culture. Unintended consequences??? Hardly...
“Without guns, this nation would not exist.”
And it was gun confiscation which sparked the revolution creating this country.