Re: This gal understands what it is about!
If you go back to American History class and read all the documents that you either speed read or just skimmed over before taking a nap, you'll find that they actually DID MEAN citizens needed to have military weapons. Not just hunting and plinking rifles. I think they expected us to have replaced our government and started over somewhere else like St. Louis by now. They wanted us to at least have the ability to do so.
My spoon didn't make me this fat. I did.
Until the courts get tough on crime, this will continue on a growing regularity. Air conditioning, cable TV and plenty of free food in decent clothes and beds and NO HARD labor gangs has made our jails a sort of haven for criminals. I thought the whole idea was to make it so that they didn't want to go back.