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Craigclev,
The arms restrictions you mentioned happened 143 corrupt years after ratification of the second amendment.
Waco is a good example of government corruption. Their job was to arrest those people on suspicion of child endangerment. Instead they massacred them. Are you also forgetting Ruby Ridge?
On that bet about me not owning guns, you would lose big time.
Regarding your “sportsmanship” purpose for guns: A 2005 Gallup poll showed “that most gun owners use their guns for each of these three purposes: crime protection (67%), target shooting (66%), and hunting (58%).”
You think that what I say to you is “crazy”, when it’s actually true, and as intended by the Founders. Either you’re not reading what I write, or you just don’t understand it. Maybe you can understand what others have written:
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." – Thomas Jefferson
"...It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control...The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them." - Samuel Adams
"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government." – Alexander Hamilton
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." – Thomas Jefferson
"Suppose that we let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal: still it would not be going to far to say that the State governments with the people at their side would be able to repel the danger...half a million citizens with arms in their hands" – James Madison