Only when people do not understand firearms. I must say right now that anyone who owns firearms should know how to properly use them and properly store them. If you can guarantee 100% that any of your family and friends will not be shot with your weapons, then sure have them.
If any of my family and friends got shot, it won't be with something I bought with the false sense of security.
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Here's the problem with your point of view. You are willing to give all control to the government. I consider the 2nd amendment to be about protection from anything that violates my guaranteed rights.... no matter who it is. Therefor, I need my firearms for if the day ever comes that it is the government that has stopped representing the people of this nation. And you being unarmed....well you surely wouldn't last very long if that happened. But go ahead and trust the government and let them take care of you in every way possible.
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Why do you feel the need to go to the extremes? I don't trust ALL of what the government is about. I do trust the police to do their job. I do not trust normal, everyday people to have guns in their possession. All it takes is one innocent life for me to avert my desires to have a gun in the house. But then, some people are rules by their fear that a nasty man or a rabid dog will come and hurt them.
And what's with the "when the government stopped representing the people of this nation" hero-movie-of-the-week thing you have going on? Are you going to save us?
Let me picture this scenario if you happen to ever develop a delusional disorder: You holed up in your house, empty, smoking shotgun shell casings on your kitchen floor; Your family, terrified, hiding under the table; and outside, the police, pleading with you to come out and you shouting "Back off you Alien Nazi's!!!"
On a real level, guns are cool. I understand this. When I hold I gun, I do feel powerful. But then my mind thinks critically about the fact that guns are more likely to cause a death of someone I love. And I put it down.
The 2nd amendment is not reason enough to explain why you, a normal citizen, should carry firearms. That's the same as a parent saying to their child "Because I said so"