I don't own a gun or ever really care to. The problem I see is... what would happen if you ban guns and the only people left carrying them are the Govt/Military and those who disregard the 'laws' anyways? Make things better or safer for whom? The politicians? Guns are not the problem, a tyrannical government with TOTAL control of it's unarmed citizens would be a BIG PROBLEM!
I think it would only be a problem if the government did not have its citizens best interest in mind. From the responses I've received on this thread, it seems like most people feel like the United States government does not care at all about its people and guns are a kind of last line of defense. There are many countries in the world where military and the police are the overwhelming majority of weapon holders and these countries do not have the issues that America is facing. One question for you, if no one had a gun versus everyone having a gun, in which scenario would you feel safer?
Framing the question around a mood-check, of how the current population feels about the imagined trustworthiness of the government of the day, to determine whether or not citizens should be able to defend themselves against the possibility of a government takeover, is like a council deciding whether or not to fund a fire department based on the average temperature of everyone's air-conditioned homes at this moment.
The first thing that happens when a government gets out of control in abusing a minority population, is that the international community seeks to send arms to that minority.
That is the kind of foresight that the 2nd Amendment represents.
It's only a ridiculous doomsday scenario to people who ignore the news and history.
That political situation has repeated itself throughout history, from as far back as the Israelites wanting to leave Egypt, the American Colonialists wanting to leave England, down to Catalonia (on the news today) fighting to leave Spain.
It is that reliable a prediction that even within America itself there was a Civil War, and, if not for the fact that the South wanted to take hostages who would be denied human rights as a premise of that new, separate nation's laws and culture, I don't know that the North would have won or even objected.
As a celebrated television producer once said through a character the the TV show he produced:
"Man only has the rights he can defend."
This unfortunately appears to be the case.
I would prefer no one to have a gun vs everyone, any day!
I'm not saying the Las Vegas event wasn't real or people didn't die or get hurt. Just check out this list and see if anything fits. 11 signs of a False Flag