I live in America. I didn't fight the British for my freedom, someone else did that. I have to believe that the founding fathers, the richest men in America, decided that they needed to be free so that they could make the laws and collect the taxes and basically do all the things that they were apposed to the English doing.
I believe they made guns a big deal in the 2nd amendant because:
1) they themselves just turned on their master and wanted to be sure everyone was armed in case they needed to fight again. But try saying that the government as it stands today is corrupted and needs to be overturned. They will consider that as High Treason.
2) people in that time lived in the wide open spaces and guns were needed to defend ones family and land from criminals and animals that roamed around that are not that much of a problem today.
Back then a soldier or an experienced hunter could load and aim about 3 shots per minute. Now any crazy person without much experience can fire 30 round from a AR15 or AK47 as fast as they can pull the trigger, and reload another 30 round clip faster than the guys who made this law could switch weapons. Does anyone really think that if Washington or Jefferson were alive today that they would argue that the common person would need such a weapon?
They saw that the only truely free people were people that were armed. To totally take away weapons is to create a police state, a bad idea that is evident in many places of the world. But something must be done to stop unbalanced people from being able to kill 20/30 children just because they can.
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