The Second Ammendment is so NOT about home defense (though it works well) or hunting. It is about 'the people' having, at the ready, a way to overthrow tyrannical government.
Lower crime rates are an ancillary benefit to an armed society. The government's enactment of laws limiting the full effect of the second ammendment causes it to be an accessory to every rape, strong-arm robbery, assualt, carjacking, home-invasion, and murder committed over the last hundred years, and then some. Good luck suing the b*stards or putting them behind bars.
As taxpayers, we should recoil at the cost of housing perps whose careers would have ended long before they became wards of the state-- were they stopped 'dead' in their tracks earlier on, as would have happened in an armed (polite) society.
In short, we've relinquished our right to assert ourselves as a force government must contend with, due to our reluctance to assert our right to "keep and bear arms" in capitulation to the 'majoritarian' view that to do such is politically incorrect (unpopular). I want my country back.
Crime is an issue locally and we have no one else to thank than 'gun-grabbers'. Crime at the state and national level continues to go unchecked. I reject seat-belt, child carrier seat, cell-phone crimes as mere distractions from what are real crimes: failing to implement the constitution and bill of rights as written.
Imagine the 'people' taking to task those who have been entrusted with executing our 'laws' in the same manner as we've been subjected over the years. Power to the Nanny People. Give 'em guns, 'cause the Nanny State sucks and has no intention of backing off any time soon. Let's Roll, Bring It On.
Hmmmmm. When the second amendment was written, who were "the people" mentioned in it? Is there any difference between "A" and "B" below?
A) “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."
B) “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of individuals to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”