I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of Georgia. Both of those Constitutions protect the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Protect from whom? The answer is obvious. A Constitutional right is a garantee of protection of that right from the one entity that will try to violate it, which is Government.
Someone quoted Noam Chomsky as saying that the Second Amendment doesn't permit "the people" to have guns. That is complete and utter bullshit. Even SCOTUS finally broke down and admitted that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to keep and bear arms in the Heller case. Back when the Second Amendment was written, The People WERE the militia necessary to the security of a free state; and the free states had just finished fighting a war against a government that, among other things, tried to impose gun control on THE PEOPLE.
Guns are not the problem, people are. I dare you to count the total number of gun control laws we currently have in the United States both at the Federal level and at the state and local levels. The only ones who obey those laws are those who will also obey all the other laws that prohibit all the nasty things one can do with a gun. With that in mind, use the critical thinking skills that you used against the Witnesses and ask yourself why you as a law-abiding U.S. citizen should be disarmed without your consent because of the actions of those who will continue to disregard the laws already in place to prevent them from using guns to commit crimes.
I carry a gun. I support mandatory training for carry licenses, much to the dismay of some of the more hard-core 2A supporters. I support licensing for carry, so long as such licensing permits both open and concealed carry and requires sufficient training in safety, marksmanship, and the law. Never once has my pistol jumped out of its holster and gone on a shooting spree. To be honest with you, people rarely even notice the huge lump of "combat tupperware" on my hip or the two spare magazines on the other.
The right to keep and bear arms does not violate the rights of anyone else, nor does it in itself harm anyone. Self defense is a human right, not a privelege granted to us by career politicians. It is a right that is protected by the Constitution, not granted to us by it. Those who make the choice to do us harm neither have nor deserve any protection from those of us who defend ourselves with equal or greater force.
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