If the government honored the Second Amendment, those ganstas would refrain from shooting up neighborhoods, either because they wanted to avoid ending up dead, or because they failed to do so.
There are those out there who fail to see what ‘deterrence’ means, no matter what.
Realistically, if the thugs were to be ventilated upon active thuggery, there’d be less thugs.
On the other hand, there are ALOT of idiots out there.
(Think Corzine driving at 100 plus with zero seatbelt and armed to get a mental image of such level of idiocy as I am hinting at.)
This is not the same country our forebears fought to create, not by any means.
I guess that's why there's never been any drive by shootings, house strafings, car-to-car shootouts, or any of the nighttime shooting sprees and murder attempts that I've heard while sitting in my living room. I must have imagined seeing all the bullet holes in doors and walls here and there. The threat of getting shot in return prevents all that from ever happening, I guess .