Numbers, motivation, terrain, asymmetrics, and the unwillingness of American soldiers to shoot fellow Americans.
Emphasis mine of course: If you have to have permission to do it and that permission is conditional, I hate to tell you this but they took the right from you and turned it into a privilege. I know they still call it a "right" but then pimps often tell their whores that the whore is their "woman" or "girlfriend" etc. Pimps lie to whores, governments lie to citizens.
For the simple reason that there are hundreds of millions of others in the united states currently, with that number continuing to grow daily.
Total foolish and further proves how little you know about the subject, furthermore if one has the money they can buy a demilitarized aircraft like the F-18, that means the weaponry is removed and it becomes a very fast airplane. Duh, why do you not comprehend what that states?
Excellent point and their cohorts in the Anti-Gum movement, as already demonstrated in this thread, lies even more to promote their Anti-Gun agenda.
Then consider this.. Florida Alert!! YOU LOOT -- WE SHOOT! DATE: July 7, 2020 TO: USF & NRA Members and Friends FROM: Marion P. Hammer USF Executive Director NRA Past President By Marion P. Hammer Record numbers of firearms have been purchased over the past couple of months in Florida and around our nation. Many of the firearms were – and are – purchased by people who never thought they would want or need a gun. Firearms training classes are full and booked for months ahead. Florida Tax Collectors are reporting huge increases in the number of Concealed Weapon or Firearm License applications being processed locally. Around the country, professional rioters and violent protesters have been destroying private property. These acts of violence are soon followed by looters who help themselves to what’s left. These are not acts of civil disobedience; these are planned and orchestrated acts of domestic terrorism. People around the nation are getting fed up and are buying guns, getting trained and are preparing to protect what they have worked hard to achieve. We’ve seen people wake up and take responsibility for themselves and their property before. In August 1992, Hurricane Andrew hit Miami/Dade County, Florida. The destruction was massive. During the news coverage in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, a warning from residents to looters emerged. Images flashed across TV screens on national TV and the message was clear. Hand scrawled on a piece of building debris: “You Loot - We Shoot!” Spray painted on garage doors: “You Loot - We Shoot!” Painted across the front of damaged homes: “You Loot - We Shoot!” Hurricane Andrew had damaged and destroyed much of what Dade County residents owned, and they did not intend to lose anything else to looters and roving gangs. Throughout the television coverage of the plight of hundreds of thousands of residents left homeless by - what at the time was - this nation's worst hurricane disaster, we saw many people refusing to leave the rubble they once called home. They were armed and standing guard to protect what little they had left. There was even a report from Miami of a police officer on local TV telling residents if they needed security, they'd better get a gun – police couldn't help them. Even after the National Guard arrived, residents reported to the media that they still had to protect themselves because when the sun went down, the soldiers disappeared and residents were once again on their own. During this TV coverage the overwhelming majority of firearms that residents were using for protection were semi-automatic firearms – firearms would be banned as so-called "assault weapons" by gun ban organizers. Such tragic disasters often make folks open their eyes to the importance of firearms for protection and the outrageous restriction of gun control laws - particularly waiting period laws and gun ban laws. When you need a firearm for protection you can't wait and you need the firearm best suited to stop gangs of intruders! Those whose anti-gun philosophy is manufactured in air-conditioned offices or in homes with electronic security systems and iron gates should take heed. When their anti-gun counterparts in Miami, became victims of a disaster, they quickly had a new perspective on the importance of the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right of the People to keep and bear arms. Hurricane Andrew is not the only time Floridians have stepped up to protect their families and their homes with firearms following hurricane disasters; it just hasn’t been widely reported in the anti-gun, anti-self-defense media. Today, the ice cold reality of self-reliance settles in when people observe professional protesters rioting with violence and destruction. That’s why they are buying guns.
I have this fantasy - I have enough money and a pilot's licence so that I could go buy my favorite jet, the F16. But I think the citizens are going to need a few squadrons of F35's to fight the state.
Driving a car is conditional. Lots of conditions. Buying a car is also conditional. Getting married is conditional too.
No, you are measuring "rights" by a Constitution. We have a constitution too, but we leave it an elected parliament to make the laws - not unelected judges. We are fearful of having "activist judges" who can tell us, like in USA last week, whether we are allowed to call ourselves male, female or transgender, or whether we can have abortions.
Which is why operation of a motor vehicle on a public right of way is not a constitutional right, nor can ever legitimately be compared to such.
Operating a motor vehicle is not a right. Getting married is not conditional. I have a declaration of marriage in my drawer that requires no officiant or permission. You're simply notifying people of your status so your spouse can have the evidence to claim the legal rights they're entitled to. You can't marry a blood relative, true, but then you can't rape a child either and no one thinks that restricts their rights because you don't have a right to abuse a person. See how that works?
Are you saying you don't understand how your own judiciary works? Yall have interpretation of statute by courts down under too. Judges don't write laws here either, they lay out interpretations of statute and Congress or the relevant State Legislature retains the power to tell them that's not what they wanted when they wrote the statute and fix it. They just tend to not do that because they're lazy, or feckless, or malicious. Or a stunning combination of all 3.
You said your privileges are granted to you by the state. Our states do not grant us our rights. That's the only valid metric.
OUCH: Some people with Mental Disability have low IQ. Some, including me have Autism. Some have Severe Depression. Sadly those who support Second Amendment do not value lives of vulnerable people.
Not as far as the individuals themselves are concerned. If they are ending their own existence, they do not view their own lives as having anything relating to paramount value. If they are murdering others, they do not view the lives of others as having anything relating to paramount value.
Why it is believed that society actually has a duty to prevent individuals from ending their own existence? Does society, in fact, own the individuals and have absolute say over their life decisions? Is every private individual nothing more than a slave to government, to be bought, sold, and traded as if they were nothing more than a commodity with no say in the matter?
And government continually releases murderers from prison, despite knowing full well that they will go on to murder again and again, as they have proven that they both cannot, and will not, abide by the rules of society. If government is not going to remove known murderers from society, why does it have any greater a responsibility to try and prevent suicides from being committed?