>Our right to own guns to fight our government is anachronistic and laughable. All other uses for firearms do not demand high capacity magazines. It's not alwa

>Our right to own guns to fight our government is anachronistic and laughable. All other uses for firearms do not demand high capacity magazines. It's not always about resisting the government (though sometimes it is), and rarely if ever about resisting the federal government. For example: if and when civil unrest comes to your city, police will not help you. They will neither be willing nor able. Durning the 1992 L.A. Riots, Korean storeowners who defended their livelihoods with guns escaped the worst looting and burning. Those who did not defend their businesses lost everything. "L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later - Gun Store Manager David Joo Looks Back" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYT9Hew9ZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYT9Hew9ZU Similar scenes have recently played out in Minneapolis and elsewhere: "After nights of violence in Minneapolis, locals take up arms to defend their community" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtLTPrB2MA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtLTPrB2MA Looking further back, during the era of Jim Crow, the armed Deacons for Justice protected black Americans from the Klan and corrupt local law enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justic... Numerous similar examples may be found in American history.