My history class just recently had a debate about this. I can't remember everything people said but many good points were made for them.

The 2nd Amendment, "The right to bear arms", and such was originally put in place as a last resort protection of the people of the United State. Not protection from each other, or even other countries, but from the United States government itself should it become so fucked up that the people HAVE to do something about it for the sake of their freedom and all that.
We don't NEED guns, but in the end we need the right to them. Honestly I think this is an almost genius precaution for a country such as the U.S.

besides protection, to hunt deer, turkeys, and other game! Low cal of course but you'd be surprised how tough dem animals are! My dad has a .50 cal muzzleloader used for deer hunting, obviously too cumbersome, slow loading, and too short range for it to be an effective gun for killing people, powerful, but impractical for killing people (as if killing people was practical... *sarcasm, it isn't practical*). See I think of it this way, we don't need assault rifles, sub machine guns, auto-shotguns, Barrett .50 cal sniper rifles, auto pistols and whatnot. We don't need them! We need our huntin guns and revolvers, that's it! revolvers for protection from crooks, huntin guns for huntin. Simple as that

If a government has reached a point that you feel the need to shoot them, then they already have the resources to overpower you in terms of firearms.

That's what the British thought.

The British were 3000 miles away. Also what will guns do to tanks, drones, airplanes, helicopters, and missiles?

I was just referring to the American Revolution, where a vastly outnumbered and under equipped army was able to defeat a much stronger one.

Also, if things got bad enough that there was a 2nd American Revolution, I would think that the US military would be split as well, so both sides would have some of the heavier equipment.

I actually support the people's right to have guns but that was just a dumb argument for it in my opinion.

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i dunno about the populace..