I don't own ANY dangerous guns. When I pick up another one I always test it out. I don't mean proof testing or going out and sighting it in, I mean finding out if the gun is one of the 'killer' guns that should be banned. What I do is set the loaded gun on the kitchen table and then go about my business cooking and washing dishes and etc.....but I keep a watch out the corner of my eye on that untested firearm. If at anytime it starts to rotate around and point its muzze at me I immediately unload the thing and go on the other side of town and peddle it out the window of the car to someone that is less picky about such things.
As far as 'The Right To Keep and Bear Arms"; It must be remembered that we here in America have the more guaranteed rights and freedoms than ANY other people in the world. Or any country at ANY time in the history of mankind. There can be no arguement about that. But the time span between the granting of them rights and the present day is only a quick 'flash in the pan' when compared to the long,sorry, history of mankind. Our freedoms in the U.S. of A. can, and should be, regarded as a noble experiment. A very delicate one being tried out during a very short blip of time. Anyone that wishes to erode or, as the left-wing liberals wish, to totally take away various rights, WHICH CANNOT EVER BE REPLACED, is nothing short of a nearsighted fool. Another light would go out that will never be relit. These same people are so very worried about any species of animal or insect going away, based on my observations in the last few decades, couldn't care less if the only truely free people become part and parcel with Canada, UK, Cuba and etc.. Freedom has its costs. Nothing is ever 100% positive. Thinking people can't and don't claim there is not a downside. But to make capital of defects resulting from our Constitutional Rights, and 'cure' the real or imagined problems by canceling parts of the Constitution is crazyness. Absolute madness.
Will "...people with zeal and wellmeaning, but without understanding, put to death our freedoms"? I hope I have that quote correctly written.
One more thing. Where in the hell do foreigners get off snivveling about our way of life here in America? What is running through their minds to think it is absolutely O.K. to voice ANY opinion [other than to the other unlucky citizens of their own country] on our politics, type of government, political situations, rate of crime, laws, or displacement of the engines in our cars, or any other matter that is, perforce, absolutely none of their damned business??? I am probably sorta an average American when it comes to harboring opinions about other countrie's internal doings. I don't even think about such things. Sure, I know that we have the right to build and fly our own airplanes here [home made more that 50%] but most others don't. Ya, we are not regulated by the government regarding what radio and TV waves we can intercept [only the transmission of radio wave is regulated here]. Its really loose here regarding cars; we can put together a hot rod for short money in our garage that will blow the doors off anything manufactured in any country and drive it on the street. I somehow know that we are superior but I would never get on the net and try to bash folks in foreign countries because of their real or perceived shortcommings.