I think this is what most anti-gun/pro-gun control/common sense gun laws(whatever they prefer to be called) folks really want. They actually want to go back in time to before the invention of firearms.
If it’s a fantasy, why not outlaw them outright? Why stop at raising the age and other things of that level? The Vegas shooter was in his 60’s. If guns are a pipe dream defense against tyranny, then save lives and outlaw them.
It’s irrelevant to the the question of what you call ‘2A’. The question being why is it there and the answer being in case there is a need to revolt or to deal with hostile actors the government cannot help with or are acting on the behalf of.
…What? You just got done trying to make it as if we couldn’t bring things into perspective by talking about gun homicides/homicide in general…As if we were hijacking the discussion, first of all. I pointed out that the thread is about gun policy, period.
Uh, no, it isn’t irrelevant because that wasn’t the point of saying it. It was in response to the idea that since deaths by mass shootings are statistically “insignificant” we shouldn’t worry too much about them and not be, in one poster’s words, guilty of hysteria. The threat of some tyrannical government taking over is not that great either yet people are sure hysterical about the possibility. Who has more reason to be concerned?