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When the Bill of Rights was being written and the 2nd Amendment was being described out in that document by the founding fathers do you think they ever expected tens of thousands of gun-related deaths per year, mass shootings, and constant political fights over the topic? If they could go back in time and do it over again would they so graciously provide us with such a responsibility and freedom again? In my opinion I don't know they would be so willing to grant us that privilege again to be honest. Yes, statistically, with the amount of guns available in this country versus the amount of people versus the amount of gun-related crimes it may not seem that dramatic when put into perspective, but with the original intent of the 2nd amendment allowing for the creation of civilian militia and the right to have arms in order to ensure freedom from tyranny, have we drifted away from the spirit of that freedom and slowly been drifting into simply being poor stewards of such a responsibility to the point that we possibly don't deserve such freedom anymore as a society? I'm not calling for an overthrow of the constitution anything like that, I'm simply just asking a hypothetical question. Have we abused or ignored that right to the point to where we warrant a loss of that privilege if we continue along this path?