You might also mention Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the abduction of Elian Gonzalez—Just for starters.
Now why would mere citizens need guns when the government is just here to help?
Yes, and theit it’s amusing in a disgusting sort of way to watch them twist and turn as they try to justify those actions. Somehow, they can never quite understand that the consequence of their very bad ideas places them in exactly the same position of those who ended their days looking at the world through a barbed wire fence.
It is a bill of RIGHTS not a bill of NEEDS
Apply their same logic to the 1st ammendment
- no one needs to read books or have emails
- no one needs to assemble
- no one needs to go to church
Then start applying some of their “solutions”.
- limit emails to only 10
- background check before anyone can purchase a book or write a letter to the editor or sell their private/owned books
- background checks before people can attend church or attend a protest rally
Still, you wont get them to change their point. But it is fun to see their cognative dissonance