Like most issues these days, it's all emotion. I want a gun, and I have a right to it! Anything controversial becomes emotional, and the real issues get tossed. I have a friend who recently purchased a gun. He plays around with it when it's not loaded. It irks me to no end, but he doesn't get why there's an issue if "he cleared it". Scary.
It's not the gun that people get emotional about.
It's the freedom of tyranny and the freedom to defend your home and body.
With everything in the US Constitution, there are pros and cons to it.
Do neo Nazis have a right to March? The Constitution and the courts ruled that yes.
That the Constitution protects my rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, is that as an individual I have the right to defend myself.
I'm not even a crazy gun person and have not really carried a gun in years.
The debate of who has the right to own a gun follows the lines of does the state of the right to just lock up anyone they deem a danger?
As mentioned, many of these attacks are by unhinged people, the mental health reform of the 70's and 80's was both crucial and devastating.
Part of arguments I see revolve around former soldier's, here are people who defended their country (or were political pawns) but regardless, if a guy has PTSD and someone deems them unfit well hey they lose their guns.
In the same sentence many will qualify their firearm training as being ex military.. great.
It's not an emotional debate by people just screaming 2a.
There's another side of the aisle saying no one should own guns..
And there are DDF members who are a full of their qualifications to own and carry a gun, it's like billionaires trying to tell me how I should spend my money.
Well good on all your training and practice, not that you guys don't sound pompous which you do, but I respect that people did the work and trained and studied.
That's fine, but that's akin to someone with a master's degree saying no one without a BA should be allowed to post on the internet.
Do I worry about tyranny? Sure.. not that guns will help in the coming age but freedom has been a battle since humanity was formed.