It is not unconstitutional to ban them. You would still have the right to bear arms just a regulation on what types of weapons your allowed to have.
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", is pretty clear. If a gun is banned, our rights are being infringed upon. Period.
Go to a hunting club and tell them you want to hunt deer with an M-16 and then see the look on their faces. Walk outside with an M-60 machine gun and tell your neighbors it's for self defense.
I don't care if people at a hunt club or my neighbors like it or not. The second amendment isn't about hunting or "popular opinion". I don't hunt anyway.
The police are outgunned by the civilian population and now patrolmen want to carry assualt rifles with them. There are countires in Europe where these weapons are banned and the police don't carry guns at all.
There is no gun that a civilian is "allowed to have" (where is a puking icon when you need one) that a cop isn't allowed to have. In fact, the reverse is true. As such, its impossible for normal civilians to "outgun" LEO civilians.
There are also countries in Europe where full auto weapons are perfectly legal, and common among the normal civilian population. I don't care what they do in Europe. This is the US, and people here have rights, which are ACKNOWLEDGED, not GIVEN, by the bill of rights.
There is no check and balance against the US govt. by civilains. using violence against the US military or cops would only escalate the problem and lead to an ever further police state. Any armed insurgency against the govt. would be crushed within a matter of days to months by the US govt. Why? Because the govt. has tanks, choppers, navy seals, aircraft carriers, and special forces units which would be used to destroy them. When the 2nd amendment was written it was written under the assumption that both sides would be armed with muskets.
The second amendment is the final check against the government. 300,000,000 guns owned by 80,000,000 people in this country is a lot. The second amendment was created to guarantee every individual's right to own weapons suitable for military service. You know any soldiers who would open up military firepower on citizens of the US? I don't.
Without "insurgency", this country wouldn't even exist. Politicians who want to ban guns are the very reason the 2nd amendment was created.
Its there to remind politicians from where their power comes, and of where it can be returned once more.
I am a gun owner, shocking isn't it? I own 5 guns, all shotguns and rifles and if someone broke into my house I would blow their asses away with my shotgun which does more damage than a pistol any way.
Michael Moore is a member of the NRA and he is not anti-gun or anti-second amendment he has stated this many times. He is anti-assault rifle, anti-handgun guns that are sold for no purpose other than to kill other people. People can easily defend themelves with a standard hunting rifle from K-mart if they want protection.
So your shotgun kills them less dead than an evil assault rifle?
The anti-gunners (like Michael Moore) know that they have no chance of banning all guns, all at once, so they have to try to do it one class of gun at a time. First, "assault weapons", because they look scary. Functionally, they are not different than any semi-auto hunting rifle, but they are black, and look evil. Even though they are used in a negligible percentage of crime, they get the most press, and its easy to convince the sheep of their "evilness" first.
So, now "assualt weapons" are banned. Crime rates don't really change, since "assault weapons" aren't used in many crimes anyway. Whats next? "Sniper rifles"!! (aka, deer rifles). "Made for nothing but killing people from tremendous distances away", say the antis.
Shotguns? "They spray uncontrolable patterns of devastation! we must ban them!"
Handguns? "To concealable, used in 70% of gun crimes, serve no useful purpose!! We must ban them!!"
So, now where are we, with everything banned? We are an infinitely weaker people, a bunch of government dependent pussies at the mercy of armed criminals who know that nobody has the capability to stop them. Out of control crime and out of control government would abound.
Luckily, about 80 million of us still have other ideas.
Also, the irony that most liberals hate George Bush and don't trust him in the least, but trust him to have all the guns, kills me.
