Lord Falcon wrote:People tend to romanticize guns, not helped by Hollywood where people blasting away at endless armies of bad guys is treated as a good thing. They also treat the 2nd Amendment much like they do the bible; as something sacred that is beyond our mortal comprehension and should therefore never be questioned. As to what they could achieve... at most, I think they could cause mass riots if enough people who shouldn't have guns keep getting access to them and public shootings get even worse.
You have shown that you mostly understand the actual viewpoint of certain people you disagree with. Your observations are moderately realistic, and do not immediately jump to the most extreme conceivable consequences.
This is good. I look forward to many more such posts from you.
Anyway. I think "mass riots" will not materialize from ordinary citizens (whatever THAT) protesting the
lack of gun control unless the nation decays into some kind of bizarre dystopia with hundreds of thousands of serial killers rampaging unchecked or whatever. And that really won't happen.
On the other hand, "mass riots"
might materialize in response to harsh gun control enacted in the wake of escalating public shootings, if a demonstration goes sour and the demonstrators are disproportionately armed. So might assassinations of politicians (which could maybe in turn trigger riots; the killing of Martin Luther King and other civil rights figures did, after all).
While I consider mass rioting unlikely, it's at least within the bounds of possibility, whereas "RAR CAGE MATCH US Army versus all American private gun owners" is not.