Reply #51: Regardless....

[sendero]

....of what the framers really meant with that passage, it has been interpreted to mean that citizens have basic rights to own guns.

And that interpretation has been reflected in our laws and regulations for many many decades. Nobody is going to revisit it and decide otherwise.

I have no problem with some sensible gun control. Waiting periods, background checks, you know stuff like that. There will never be serious gun confiscation in this country however, because it would be physically impossible. Ahd like it or not, personal gun ownership might be the last meaningful freedom that protects us from ourselves (our leaders).

I feel kinda sorry for people who long for a gun-free country, you might as well wish to the tooth fairy to put a winning lotto ticket under your pillow when you haven't even lost a tooth :)