On the gun laws issue within the ( USA Consitution- the 2nd Ammendment says..
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Basically, there are two ways this is interpreted..
1) You can focus on the the third clause - which is what gun owners do because they consider themselves an instrument preventing oppression (if you don't like the government, and if your vote doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, then you can at least knock off the officials)
2) Focus on the first clause - in which guns are given to citizens to make invasion (already difficult because of the size of the USA, and location between two massive Oceans) very, very difficult and costly in the event of war.
No one has the balls to bring the issue to the Supreme Court, because if the Court got rid of ambiguity, the gun nuts would go insane, and if it made guns legal, there would be a huge political and social backlash. America is a pretty violent place too, so I imagine that if guns were illegal here there would actually be a moral cry that now only criminals have guns..which would raise crime rates..
I have no doubt in my mind that the writers of the second ammendment intended it to be confusing so that future generations would decide what it means for themselves...
Personally, I'm a liscenced sharpshooter, but I'd like to see guns outlawed.
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
When there are more laws, there are more criminals.
- Lao Tzu
