>> dont think that if the 2nd one is changed, all of a sudden theres going to be other amendments in the bill of rights thats going to be targeted....<<
It is precisely 2nd Amendment rights that protect the rest of the Constitution. Well, it was supposed to be. We're already standing idle while our government violates the constitution and literally laughs at Constitutional considerations. It's a shame that most Americans are ignorant pussies now and won't stand up for themselves or the law.
I caught a few minutes of John Stossel's show tonight. Stossel asked one of the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting what he thought about guns being banned at the school (ie, those with legal concealed carry permits were restricted from carrying at the school), and the fact that an armed student could possibly have defended himself and stopped the shooter before he murdered 30 people. The victim responded that such an armed student could have gotten shot. This response confused me, because dozens of such students were shot and murdered that day. I somehow doubt that a major concern of students that day was that a fellow student might have legal concealed carry rights in the state and the school could have endangered their safety by allowing said students to carry on campus.
The school's rules prohibited the shooter from carrying on campus. Those rules didn't protect anyone that day.
The victim didn't answer the question. And his response was plain weird. He proposed that something that could have saved dozens of lives was... too dangerous to allow. If his conclusion that it's safest to outlaw people's ability to protect themselves was correct, he could have actually answered the question. He would have said "yes, an armed student could possibly have stopped the shooter, but..." and given the reason that allowing the carrying of firearms is more dangerous than banning them. But there is no such reason.
"Gun crime" and crime rates rose in Britain since Britain enacted some of the strictest gun control in the world (while crime rates fell in the USA). But people who feel safer pretending that nobody around them will ever be armed because the law prevents it put their ignorant feelings above the lives of their fellow man.
But wishing cannot make it so. All of these ignorant, repetitive posts continually ignore the facts in evidence. And such willful ignorance is dangerous. It, literally, gets people killed.
[I wish I could obey forum rules]
