2nd Amendment

[Faustie]

Totalitarianism..Fallacious..The fact that someone on FL knows these words and can actually use them properly makes me a happy happy man.

Anyway, the main gist I got from the counter-arguments here were abouts sports shooting and hunting. First off, point aside that if you require so many shots to take down an animal you're an awful hunter, surely there could be safer ways of sports shooting implemented?

I know you lot have various gun clubs and shooting ranges over the pond where weapons are leant out for use there, perhaps that should be the case with most weapons. While I can sort of occasionally see the use in licenced civilians owning handguns for self-defence, I really don't see why they need so many powerful weapons. Open guerilla warfare inside the US against a huge army? Most civilians would be far too scared, and thinking that waging guerilla warfare will lead to a short few month transitional period before a golden age is incredibly deluded. Have you looked at the rest of the world recently? But if you want to use such weapons for sports shooting, it could be done in an environment that both makes it cheaper to use them for shooting, but much harder to attain such a weapon to keep at home, where it really is not needed and is only a dangerous liability.