I have thought this for a while but it has really been set in stone today.

The purpose of the second amendment was to prevent tyranny. I think the past few months have made it clear that the biggest advocates of the second amendment have no desire or intent to use their rights to protect against a tyrannical government but that’s beside the point. The point is that an armed population in the US could not stop tyranny if they tried.

It is simply not possible for citizens to have the manpower necessary to take down the US gov. The US spends more on their military than the next ten countries combined. ICE is now the largest funded federal agency in history. Police departments across the county are militarized. Police regularly use weapons and tactics banned by the Geneva convention. The US government is in the process of getting additional tanks to use on citizens. The gov has weapons that revolutionaries of the past could have never envisioned. There has never been a successful revolution against a government of this size and power.

What exactly is the “right to bear arms” supposed to do about that?

At this point, all carrying a legally permitted weapon does is give the gov a reason to kill you. The murder of Alex Pretti today proved that.

The second amendment is incapable of accomplishing its original purpose and there’s no reason to even have it anymore. It only makes people less safe