The future of gun rights in the U.S. has been and always will be under attack by those individual who do not live in the same world as the average citizen.
Generally, people fighting against a citizen's right to "keep and bear arms" are politicians or rich folks who either do not live in bad neighborhoods, do not walk the same streets that "we the people" do or have their own security or their own bodyguards.
Seldom are the gun control advocates victims of a violent criminal assault. But "we the people" are and "we the people" have an absolute god given right to protect ourselves and our families.
I'm an ex-cop, I have seen way to many people become victims who would probably have never been a victim had they been armed. As a cop I never had a problem with citizens being armed, lawfully or not. I did not care, because I knew there was not enough of us cops to be able to be everywhere.
As a cop, I assumed that everybody I came in contact with was probably armed and I acted accordingly to ensure my own safety and that of any other officer with me.
What mattered was what were the circumstances under which I had contact with that particular citizen. If they were utilizing a firearm in an inappropriate action then I would take action. If they just happened to have a weapon on them but it had nothing to do with the nature of the call I was on, I dismissed it as if the fact that they were armed never occurred.
It did not matter to me if they were armed. You see I took this oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, which also includes the 2nd amendment. As far as I was concerned they didn't need "no stinking permits."
I carry a gun every day, because as a Private Investigator I get to have permits to do so. But permits or not I would probably carry anyway because I refuse to be a victim.
If your state allows concealed carry then get a permit so you can carry too and get trained also.
As far as I am concerned there can not possibly be too many armed citizens. There are too many armed criminals out there as well as terrorists that mean you harm.
The more armed citizens out there the more likelihood that criminals will be stopped in their tracks. The more armed citizens out there the less likelihood that your government can control you by tyranny.
We are the government. The government is not us. The government is an institution we the people created to protect us from foreign invasion and civil unrest. We did not create the government to prevent us from protecting ourselves.
If the "government" ever bans guns then I can guarantee you that I, along with hundreds of thousands of other "Americans" will find ways to get guns and get them we will.
Right now, most of us have handguns and shotguns and hunting rifles. Let the government ban all guns and we will start buying automatic weapons, mortars and grenades because at that point we will know that our government is no longer of the people, for the people, by the people. It will no longer be "our" government founded for individual freedoms. It will be time to be seriously considering an overthrow of the government and a return to the original Constitution our Government was founded under.
The Second Amendment is what keeps the Government from trashing all the other amendments. It is "the amendment" that actually keeps us all free.
Lose the Second Amendment and you will lose all the others because you the citizen will then have no means by which to hold the government accountable.
The very existence of this Country depends on the existence of a Second Amendment.
