Why do some people feel the need to own, of all things, an AR-15 weapon? Surely there are guns more suitable to hunting and less cumbersome for home security... and home security from what? Another AR-15? It just foxes me, that's all. As you know I hail from a country with virtually no firearms kicking about when compared to the States so I find it hard to comprehend the reasoning behind such weapons.
It's an American thing.
The American Revolution was started by King George when he required that all Colonists turn in their arms, powder, and lead. (Look it up)
The Founding Fathers had no intention of making the Second Amendment about hunting or even defense of ones individual domicile.
Their sole intention in making that Amendment was to insure that the Citizens would always have the means to protect their Liberty and Sovereignty.
Any one who believes that such things can't happen in todays "enlightened" age need only remember that every age considered itself to be enlightened and thus fell into the age old pattern of war, revolution, and chaos.
Not one single age of Mankind has avoided those scourges simply because they all have considered themselves to too civilized for such happenings.
We in America are not so far removed from our Revolution that we have lost sight of the fact that our freedoms are very fragile and require a good deal of vigilance to maintain.
The saying, "An armed man is a Citizen and an unarmed man is a subject." (Change man to person if you're into PC stuff) is still as true as is was many millennia ago when we were still killing each other with stone clubs, flint knives, and pointy sticks.
As I've stated before, the problem is not with the implements used by humans to kill each other off.
It is with Humans themselves.
