Just my two cents.
One of the consequences of war is the leftover minefields that have to be disarmed so that people don’t get blown up walking to work or school, or playing outside. The abundance of automatic and semi-automatic weapons is like a leftover minefield that carpets our whole society, legally and illegally accessible to criminals, the severely deranged, and healthy, responsible people alike.
The second amendment provides for the right of the people to bear arms, “a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state.” There is debate about whether this amendment is "antiquated.” I tend to believe it is our gun regulations that are antiquated, and there are many good reasons to pursue more effective policies.
But I think it’s easier for people to pour themselves into arguments about gun control and the second amendment than it is to address the one of the more potent roots of our societal crisis – and that is the military industrial complex, the profit motive, the corporate/government virus that depends upon a culture of war and crime for its own proliferation.
As long as a minority of profiteers benefit from the mass distribution of such weaponry, no amount of regulation is going to have deep impact. And while I am committed to the idea that we should strive for peaceful revolution, I don’t think it’s wise to fuck with the second amendment – which may be antiquated only in that we have already surrendered to the oppressive regime of corporate totalitarianism.
Just my two cents.
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