I argue that there shouldn't need to be *any* law that prohibits me from being able to protect myself and my family once we set foot off of our property.
The police to a good job but they are not everywhere. If they were it would be a police state.
The Bill of Rights needs to be seen in the context that it was written - it's not a list of things that the government *can* do, it's a list of things that government *can't* do. That's why the ability to defend our lives from those who want to steal and murder is an inalienable right that comes from God, not from any government.
A government that purports to maintain that position is the definition of tyranny.
That can easily be pushed too far. You can protect yourself with a 22 so a law against anything bigger would be ok. Or you can protect yourself really well with gernades and machine guns so a law against them weakens your ability to protect your family. But I simply don't live in a war zone. My family of 10 goes to the van and drives to church and drives home or to Taco Bells. We need a handgun about as much as we need a helicopter to travel.
The police to a good job but they are not everywhere. If they were it would be a police state.
That reminds me of another argument. The argument that if a small percentage carry it will limit all crime is thrown around all over this discussion but what about the concealed cop that MIGHT be watching? Why doesn't that count for anything? That is a huge reason that we are safe out there from all of those invisible thugs who I never seem to meet.
The Bill of Rights needs to be seen in the context that it was written - it's not a list of things that the government *can* do, it's a list of things that government *can't* do. That's why the ability to defend our lives from those who want to steal and murder is an inalienable right that comes from God, not from any government.
Now you are getting to my territory, the bible. Over and over I hear people call the constitution a living document. That is simply a joke. Only God can write a living document and to say otherwise is blaspehey. OK so the country and the FR is full of queers and witches and love to blashpheme. I'll stand behind the laws in His book. He set up our government and still calls it "The courts of the unjust". OK I digress.