And you think you having a rifle is going to stop that? I know logic means nothing to you but are a an idiot who doesn't use logic
That is an interesting question, btw. I know that the main reason of the 2nd amendment having been adopted (in theory at least) was enabling the people to resist a possible tyranny that takes away the people's rights. Not to prevent crime, per se.
Whether it is possible on practice remains in question.
It was written 233 years ago. You could defend your house with a musket. If the government wanted to take your city they could in short order. The whole gun-nut idea that you're going to stare down your government is stupid. The only reason it gets repeated is to try to justify the 30,000 or so gun deaths per year as being the cost of doing business because we can accept he gun deaths for the ephemeral and hilarious supposed benefit of being able to fend off the first armor division with your winchester.
Most gun deaths are suicides..if someone is going to shoot themselves, they will find another means to kill even without the guns. This said, many murderers fail at trying to kill themselves earlier----so I fully support allowing those who want to kill themselves to kill themselves.
Allowing the populous to stay armed means that the citizens always have an armed milita that can fight back even if only in guerilla warfare type tactics--which has deterred alot of tyranny for 230 years.......It also means that we an armed populous that can and will shot the brown shirts of yesterday and the ones of now. It also means that we always have young men going into the military knowing how to shoot.
What the hell is it to corn that the US keeps its weapons to fight off you communists.
As is always the case, fewer guns means more people living.
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Wrong.....over our history from 1930s forward....our criminals murdering people
933,478 people....
While each year 1.1 million Americans use their legal guns to save lives from rape, robbery and murder...
Meanwhile, again....Europe took guns away from their peoples to make them safer......
The governments of Europe handed over their citizens to German socialists who then murdered them to the number 12 million.
933,478 murdered by criminals with guns over 91 years...
12 million, unarmed people murdered by the very government that took away their guns...
Can you tell which number is bigger?
Can you see that your post is really stupid?