[jimnotgym]

It seems odd though. Don't you have the right to bear arms, with some idea that it is needed to prevent the government from exercising excessive powers over you, yet actually doing anything with those guns to protect yourself from tyranny is a crime?

I remember hearing once that the constitution, having been written by a bunch of insurrectionists, intended people to have the power to keep the government out of their business. It seems they have lost that?

[nkrisc]

> Don't you have the right to bear arms, with some idea that it is needed to prevent the government from exercising excessive powers over you, yet actually doing anything with those guns to protect yourself from tyranny is a crime?

Because when it comes to that, the government is a failed state and no one will be worried about what’s legal.

It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort.

[latency-guy2]

> It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort.

Guns are a first line defense for millions of people. A lawyer with a briefcase and a judge wearing a gaudy robe+wig is not a defense at all.

Though the imagery of it would be funny of blasting each of those out of a cannon.

Even the government agrees, issuing a firearm to their officers who go out into the field (read: where everyone else is).