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I like your post. I agree in every way, I have never thought of weapons as being a basic human right. And I'm especially against weapons of death (guns and AR rifles, etc) being considered someone's basic right.
The truth is, people do not buy these things to defend themselves. Oh they tell themselves that's what their doing, but then they turn around and use them to kill schoolkids or shoot at people on freeways because someone at McDonald's got their order wrong (this has happened several times here in Utah).
The truth is, humans are temperamental creatures prone to seeing other people not as human beings, but as problems. They can turn something quite otherwise harmless inanimate objects like baseball bats or crowbars or almost anything into a weapon, and they often do.
So a people who use anything at reach to hurt others should never be given access to weapons designed to kill. That is just a total recipe for constant disaster, which is what is happening every day in our country.