very intelligent, well made point..HOWEVER.....
not "anyone" can start a militia....guys starting "militias" has been a problem in the U.S....many of these "militias are racist, and run by loonies who are waiting for the end oif the world....many are involved in planning terrorist and anti-government activities...(Tim McVeigh belonged to a "militia")...Militias are not "well-regulated"......they are small bands of ignorant, anti-government morons usually.....a well-regulated militia is an Army, or police force.......also we have a well-regulated citizen Militia..its called the National Guard.....
Also, "militias" are outdated and the reference in the constitution was meant to give citizens in the U.S. the ability to deter the British by taking up arms on the premise that it was the duty of all citizens to fight possible British invasion...not their own Government.....
other countires have gun control..the British, Japanese.....I don't see them rounding up people as you put it...that can't happen here in this day and age....its a different time.... our society is too well-informed and our institutions are too well developed for that to ever happen again....
the language in the constitution is not perfect and was sometimes left deliberately vague to satisfy all parties.....again..no sane rational person can ignore the fact that gun deaths in Britain and Japan average less than 35 a year butnumber in the thousands in the U.S. every year....anyone who looks at that and continues to argue is truly insane....regardless of how you feel about the constitution
Yes, gun deaths are lower... However Stabbings and bludgeonings are higher... People will simply find a way to kill people.
England has the highest rate of stabbings per capita in the world... So sure, it's not guns, but they will just find another way to kill.
Do you truly believe that 1939 was THAT long ago? People didn't have access to information and didn't know what was going on? They did and there just wasn't a damn thing that anyone could do about it because they had NO ARMS to fight off an oppressive regime.
Pol Pot was in control when?
Exactly... Just because we have the internet doesn't mean that information is all of a sudden more available than it was before.
People knew what was going on.
The old saying is still true... Evil wins when good people do nothing... If there are no arms, then when a tyrannical government gets going, the good people have no ABILITY to do nothing.
Hell, look at the afghanis... How long did they fight off the Soviets?
They didn't have anywhere near the force, but eventually the USSR had to say fuck it.
To put it simply... In an unjust world, the gun enables justice.