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The problem with that is the government decides what qualifications a person needs to have to be "safe" with a weapon.
Yeah. And if those qualifications don't make sense, there will be
so many groups all over the people responsible, it'll solve itself.
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The right to bear arms was put in the Constitution to protect the citizenry from an abusive national government.
All well and good,
except that it doesn't.
Consider the Branch Davidians. Their guns did them
no good; now, I don't think the government's abusive, but citizens with guns against the military with tanks and planes and bombs and
training are going to lose, without some serious environmental compensating factors.
What protects us against an abusive national government is the fact that there is no such thing as a unified monolithic "government". The parties are split on many things, there are the various branches... the simple fact is that "the government" is not a single entity and thus is our own best protection againts itself.
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Gun control enthusiasts try to convince people that they were intended for the state militias, and the national guard has taken their place, therefore there should be no guns out of military hands. They fail to address the fact that the state militias were STATE controlled and not nationally controlled. The NATIONAL guard is not.
Though it may feel like guns are only a nuisence today, we have to ensure people always have the right to carry them, or it will be that much easier to take freedoms from us in the future.
Yes, I agree.
But we still need to protect our communities from the dangers of people using dangerous implements without proper knowledge of appropriate safety measures.
I am not advocating gun control. I am advocating gun safety. If you can prove that you are safe with a gun, I don't care what you have as long as it's not inherently unsafe. (for instance, explosives are out; you can't be safe using them.)
Safe with a gun and want a full-automatic? Sure, go ahead if you can find someone to sell it.
Now, use that to kill people (except in self-defense etc, obviously) and you will never be considered safe, and will be lucky to ever see sunlight again, but until you do that, feel free to have the weapon. Kill all the deer you want, hang it on your wall, perform interpretive dance with it,
I don't care as long as you are being safe.