Do you feel more free going into a shopping mall when no one has a gun on their shoulder, or if everyone had one. The answer to this should be reflected in 3rd world Countries where children have Ak-47's everywhere. Is that us? Are we that pre-historic? That's Libertarian........Liberty no matter what.
I feel a lot safer with everyone carrying a gun....criminals would stay away, mass shooters would stay away...third world countries are dangerous because they don't have the rule of law, free markets or democracy...the three pillars of civilized society...
It is not our right to disarm future generations because of irrational fear of guns...our country is not murderous toward it's own citizens...today....it took Germany only 20 years to go from the Weimar republic...when access to guns was restricted, to the killing regime of the nazis...who used the weimar restrictions to disarm their enemies...
This 30 round magazine issue is bigger than freedom of choice, and personal self defense...the 2nd Amendment was codified to make sure the people were armed against their government...you can ask about 100 million dead people from their governments if being disarmed was a good idea...ask the early Americans who lost a continent because they didn't have access to enough guns...
The problem with you guys is you do not study the history of men...without guns in the hands of good guys the bad guys kill them in the millions...
Even today...look at Mexico...the government is unable to defend it's people and in some cases actively siding with drug cartels to kill those people....so bad is it that those innocent people have set up their own militias...the Auto Defensas...to fight the drug cartels....they can't do that with their bare hands...
You guys have grown up pampered and privileged and historically lazy...those who support the 2nd amendment realize the government at best is a poor protector...and at its worst is murderous...
Your historical laziness is no excuse to disarm our future generations...and 30 round magazines and military rifles may very well be necessary to their freedom in the future...ask the Kurds if having their people armed with rifles and 30 round magazines would be a bad thing right now...
and cue the "do you really think that could happen here...your paranoid..." No, I am a student of history and people...it can happen here and the only way to make sure it doesn't is to keep our people armed...
So again, you will not get one more bullet, one more weapon or one more piece of equipment...
You really, really need to watch that documentary "Terror in the Mall."
all of your really stupid comments are answered by that documentary...people ran...and hid...and the killers are seen walking up calmly and executing people...since some ran into dead ends with no way to escape...and had no guns to defend themselves....
And the killers had military rifles with 30 round magazines...and the good guys, by law, were disarmed...and they died...children died too...
It can happen here, it wouldn't take much...and we need to be ready for that...
We are better off because as one commentator put it...India had no "gun culture" when they were attacked in Mumbai...so the police were unprepared to deal with killers with guns...and the killers ran around killing at will
We have a gun culture...our police are part of that culture and carry, in a lot of cases AR-15s in the trunks of their cars and would make it more difficult for killers like the ones in Mumbai, and Kenya...but some of our malls are huge...and it would take them more than 4 minutes to gain control of the mall...more than enough time for terrorists to kill a lot of innocent...unarmed...people....unarmed by the law...