Why the obsession of taking guns from the people? If at all, having citizens being able to protect themselves would be cheaper to maintain order. Less police needed.
Criminals, including government sponsored ones, go for the easy target. If they have to choose between a possibly armed target and an unarmed target. They will choose the unarmed target. If there where no possible unarmed target, chances are they wouldn't even do the shooting. This are not valiant people, this are cowards that prey on the weak.
That said:
In the USA (and ANY OTHER REPUBLIC) the power that legitimatizes government comes from its constitution. ANYTHING that is outside the constitution is not legal for government to do. And (at least in the USA) the constitution does not grant rights, neither does government. The constitution RECOGNIZES rights. ANY government stops obeying its constitution becomes an illegitimate one.
What part of "The right to bear arms shall not be infringed." do you people seem to not understand? Don't like it, then start the process of amending the constitution, but good luck with that. The majority of of people of the USA, know why this was placed. And is not for the hunting bullshit that Obama tries to sell. The reason for it is that if government became a tyranny the people have the means to take it out.
Don't believe me, and believe the Obama bullshit interpretation that it was for hunting? Then explain why Thomas Jefferson wrote this:
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Finally, and this is from me:
Freedom of speech is useless without the right to bear arms. If the people cannot take out government, then whats to stop government to do whatever they want and just ignore the people?
Just look at Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and just about any other dictator. The first thing they do is to take is your ability to fight back. The second thing this people do is to kill their opposition. And of course, they always come with the message that is for your own protection.
BEGIN_SARCASM
But no, Obama couldn't possibly become a dictator. Never mind the NDAA legalizing murder and incarceration of USA citizens inside the USA without need of a trial. Never mind the various attempts at censoring the Internet. Never mind the Fast and Furious. Nor should you mind that Guantanamo is still fully functional. We should blindly trust our leader, thats the American way. After all anyone who says otherwise, must be a terrorist or a racist.
And the 2nd amendment was about hunting, because Obama says so. Never mind Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin, and just about anyone that signed that outdated piece of paper.
END_SARCASM