Oh, if you put it that way (… and I couldn’t put it better myself.)
Yes, my dears, if you put it that way, it really is amazing that there is a gun laws debate in the United States. Let me spell out the dialogue in this snippet of a debate …
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… Gun laws opponent
“Excuse me, but this White House uses the First Amendment to protect flag burning, to protect pornography, to ban school prayer … why when the Second Amendment clearly says that the Federal Government will not infringe upon a citizen’s right to keep and bear arms …”
Gun laws proponent:
“… in fact it doesn’t say that at all, it only say that if you remove some words from it … (it says*) “a well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, the Government shall not infringe …” The words regulated and militia are in the first sentence. I don’t think the (framers?) were thinking of three guys in a (Dodge – inaudible).”
Gun laws opponent:
“You don’t really know what the (framers?) were thinking, do you?”
Gun laws proponent:
“No …
“… but I do know if you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, you get a population roughly the size of the United States.
“We had 32,000 gun deaths last year … they had 112.
“Do you think it’s because Americans are more homicidal by nature?
“Or do you think it’s because those guys have gun control laws?”
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* Wikipedia: As passed by the Congress and preserved in the National Archives, with the rest of the hand-written copy of the Bill of Rights:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.