[sima_yi]

...we’d all have a safer society if only the government had guns.

I saw a movie about a society like that. The movie was called "Schindler's List".

[B4Ranch]

Someone needs to teach the writer about the necessity for paragraphs.

[ConservativeInPA]

Now I know plenty of people who own guns. They take them out to go hunting and afterward they are returned to a lock safe. Some have merely inherited their arms and wouldn’t know even how to load them. Some enjoy hobby shooting and for those who do, I know none of them that have any desire to shoot anyone

These are completely invalid arguments to defend our God-given 2a rights. I hunt. I have inherited arms. I like to shoot. I like to reload. I like to build ARs. I like to gunsmith, do trigger jobs, etc. Liking something isn't a right. F'n people on welfare like the taxes that I pay give them their benefits. They like their benefits. They like my tax dollar. But it isn't a God-given right.

This country is so screwed up that most people do not understand that the primary principle of the Bill of Rights was that rights do not come from government and rights should be incredibly difficult to be taken away be government. When government gives you something it is also something they can take away.

This dynamic was set up to limit government powers, and at a time when people would kill for their rights.

Notice that I wrote, "they would kill for their rights". The author of this piece misses that, because there are millions wiling to kill to defend their rights today. That is the correct attitude, as opposed to dying for their rights.

[sten]

at the Boston marathon... the govt WAS the only ones with guns

didn’t help anyone