And THAT elcapitan is my argument in the 2nd ammendment--"a well regulated". We are well regulated. I'd love to own a bazooka! But I digress, it would just be for the "cool" factor. But, because we are well regulated, I don't get to own one.
American gun owners (AGOs) are neither a militia nor are they well-regulated. Is
anything in the USA well-regulated, since Reagan and Clinton?! Not much, besides 9/11-related regulations.
AGOs are individuals, not a militia, or even militias. They aren't well-regulated at all; they own as many guns and ammo as they wish (and always more and more whenever this topic is even debated).
In terms of discipline and order, there is very little. We hope against hope that AGOs keep their guns & ammo locked up when not in use, 100% consistently and fully. They don't. We pray the weapons don't fall into the hands of anyone suicidal, homicidal, careless or ignorantly curious (such as a toddler). They do. We hope AGOs don't lose control of their faculties, due to drugs or alcohol, or neighbor/ex-wife-fueled rage, or traumatic brain injury. They do. All these hopes are in vain.
Our society just accepts the costs of that, in terms of innocent lives lost. The incredibly vague, mysterious Second Amendment is the justification, as if it came from the Bible. "And then God said, 'Go forth, multiply, make guns and use them, of all sorts!'"
There's a red line somewhere. We can't all have personal nukes. Somewhere, there's a line--albeit a fuzzy one--of weapons that cause too much damage. These weapons are OK for individuals, and those are OK for the military. There's even a third category of weapons, that even militaries should never use.
So, all the arguments about the weapons being out there, and the criminals could have them, and we want the good guys (notice how simplistic that argument is; it assumes we're all bad guys and good ones)... All those arguments break down when you confront the real likelihood and statistics that show what's actually happening, and the fact that the terrorists could eventually obtain a tactical nuke, and far more feasibly chemical and biological weapons. There must be a line, somewhere. It's just the issue of drawing it, and if necessary, destroying and confiscating weapons & ammo that are beyond it.
(Noise of stampeding AGOs going out to buy tons of questionable weapons, many of which are well beyond the red line.)(Noise of gunfire, of innocents killed.)
