hiimcade

You do know that the 2nd amendment states "Shall not be infringed", right? The government has no right to tell me I can't keep my automatic rifle sitting on my bedside, if I wanted to.

Also, your argument about tanks and fighter jets and drones and stuff is a little flawed. We spent 15 years using all of those things in Afghanistan. And we lost to a bunch of guys with AKs hiding in caves. Not to mention that if there was a large scale rebellion against the government, the government would be fighting easily fighting about 10x as many people as they did in Afghanistan. If you want my math- 300 million guns, with about 30% of americans owning guns. 100 million gun owners, and lets say 10% of that actually take up arms- 10 million people fighting. In Afghanistan, we fought against less than 100,000 people. In a war vs the USA, they wouldn't be able to use drones. Could you imagine how much shit the media would give if they learned we were using drone strikes against our own citizens?

This doesn't even factor in how many people in the military would refuse to even fight against their own citizens

Yes, I would leave it lying on my bedside table when I'm home. Nobody is going to get it anyways. Safety on, no round in the chamber. Even if a kid was here they wouldn't be able to rack it and take off the safety. If I'm not home I would leave it in a gunsafe, and even then the government shouldn't be allowed to tell me that I need to keep it locked up. The riots that we have had currently arn't an indicator of what would actually happen if civilians took up arms and fought against them, as they were small incidents where the citizens hardly used firearms and more or less burned down buildings and looted stores. Also, its hard to keep my guns when we have people like Clinton wanting mandatory gun buyback programs like in Australia, and unconstitutional laws created to hinder my rights while politicians are perfectly fine with creating more, and don't even care.

If you look at the facts, gun violence is on a downward trend, and gun homicides were at its lowest in years. Rifles cause barely 300 homicides a year, including situations where it was justified like home defense.