Personally, I've never believed in civilians holding firearms, believing in the letter of the 2nd Amendment that unless it's in furtherance of "a well regulated militia." Even though I'm in the minority on this.
What was predicted has come about: a flurry of lawsuits are being filed against gun-control laws all across the US, the most egregious I think being the National Rifle Association (NRA) filing a suit against the ban on handguns in public housing projects in San Francisco. Perhaps the NRA feels, in furtherance of the sentiments expressed by Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, that arming denizens of housing projects might be one way to "decrease the surplus population."
While meant as a send-up on gun owners, this might be eerily prescient:
It's at times like these I'm glad I'm living elsewhere for now.
- Farmer Ted
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