Right To Bear Arms

Last night I read a sad story about how a former marine turned mentally unstable went on a killing spree at one of the safest cities in the world. I guess not one city is really safe, and there really is a little risk involved now if a person wants to have fun at a popular place. Despite these associated risks, I guess everyone still likes to think it's never going to happen to them. It's unfortunate but my question is if people have the right to bear arms, I wonder why they really don't go through the hassle these days of acquiring a gun and practicing it for self-defense with these bad guys. Maybe, because it takes too much time and it's expensive, so they would rather have gun control laws to keep others from having access and to try to even the playing field.

With these gun-control laws, it seems nice but what if the government decided to become oppressive against a people for some crazy reason and those people really had no way of defending themselves? It may just be that having the right to acquire a gun legally might have future implications of more innocent lives lost, but I see it is a God-given right to be able to protect homes and one's own life with an effective weapon against a perpetrator. It's probably that maybe some people want to be peaceful and not get into that mess and deal with conscientious thinking of ending someone's life because they have to.  It's probably from not wanting to deal with it and avoiding those tragic situations in the future that people would want preventive measures while not still going out of their way to practice with a gun for self-defense.

Overall, I believe people just want to feel comfortable with where they are living and willing to make tiny sacrifices for being happy. I think they want to focus more on their own lives rather than worrying about some crazy nut with experience shooting down people. I guess it's coming to feel an acceptance that it's never going to happen to them and how they will find a way to stay alive even without owning a gun. To give it a label, it feels like red-neck territory in the states to own a legal weapon while getting good at it and these red-necks are probably people the bad guys wouldn't want to take on as a whole.