It would result in a serious weaking of the intent of the second amendment: the public's ability to resist tyranny.
Yeah, banning fully automatic weapons also does this. The best weapons to resist your hypothetical tyranny are going to be able to murder lots of kids in a school quickly. I guess it comes down to whether you think it's better to live under the certain tyranny of those with free access to firearms, or the theoretical tyranny that might one day come about from democratically electing your leaders.
Ahh yes. The "the theoretical tyranny that might one day come about from democratically electing your leaders." The irony is that the “theoretical tyranny":
- Was NOT elected by popular vote. The blond android was. The electoral college made HIM president.
- Wants to confiscate guns without due process.
- Wants to sell US public lands to the highest bidder for fracking, strip mining, etc.
- Wants to reverse regulations on banks and other financial institutions so they can victimize small account holders/investors and endanger the economy.
- Wants to ban immigrants based on race/religion and continue policies of indefinite incarceration. (Talk about a slippery slope we should never go down.)
- Wants to privatize our public works program for corporate gain
- Endorses privatized prison systems
- Continues the militarization of our police forces
- Endorses unlawful use of force by those forces
- Continues a surveillance state apparatus
- Wants to destroy what social safety nets we have
- Endorses torture
- Endorses White Supremacy and Nazis
- Seems beholden to repressive, even murderous Russian oligarchs
- Denies the rights of LBQT citizens
- Considers women second class citizens
And that’s the short list. Or maybe you don't consider all that at least the making of tyranny?
I know it's just the opinion of a single guy. But I agree with George Carlin's attitude on the Cult of the Child. But if I did have kids I'd rather have free children at risk from occasional gunfire (and cars and flu, etc.) than have them live in an authoritarian society.