lol - yes, a tank would be fun, right? Just greater firepower, after all... However, I've never heard the forefathers arguing that the 2nd Amendment meant they could have cannons. :-p (but I'm not a historian.)
I agree with you totally. And people in other countries (particularly the UK where I was for many years) think that because they do not see gun violence flashed on the news all the time (except from the US) that gun control "worked" over there. We have been taught by our society to fear our neighbor and trust our government, when our country was founded on the opposite.