It's pretty stupid how much I keep thinking about guns and stuff as related to law, but it's all over the place at the moment, so I can't help it.

Reasonable measures make sense right?  Sure let's do it.

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There ARE good reasons to allow (some) civilians high power weapons.  What is the wording of the second amendment?  Something like, "A well formed militia being important, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed".  Right?  Well, what groups fought the British during the Revolutionary War?  Oh yeah, militias were involved.  

Wanting big guns so that you have the ability to take on the government if necessary is not crazy.  (okay it CAN be crazy, but isn't necessarily).  The British weren't even really tyrannical  yet here we are a separate country.  Rebels in countries where the regime really is horrid (as in commits genocide) have a hard time getting anywhere without big guns (and tanks).  Right?

And it is folly to assume that the United States could not become tyrannical.  The country is only like 300 years old.  Crazy shit happens.  Sure we consider ourselves modern, civilized, fair, and the "good guys".  But I am sure a lot of countries/empires thought they were awesome.  Everyone has stinky shit.

I can understand the perspective that the US military is so freakin crazy powerful, that an overthrow would be impossible even with every civilian armed with a rocket launcher, so why bother (especially when rocket launchers are scary dangerous).  I don't think I go for it, but it might be a valid point.  But like I said things change.

I don't know.  I'm blathering on here about stuff I don't really know much about.  And it's fine with me if guns (especially high power guns) are wicked hard to get.  I just don't like how people judge things by who said them and how weird it sounds rather than taking a minute to think whether or not the nutter over there MIGHT have a point.

Bah!