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CMV: Wanting to decrease gun violence is not enough justification for repealing the 2nd Amendment.

This post is oriented towards people who think the 2nd Amendment should be repealed entirely, not for people proposing specific gun control measures that are intended to coexist with the 2nd Amendment. I know people in favor or repealing the 2nd Amendment are a pretty small percentage of gun control activists; however, people who want to see the amendment repealed do exist (including a former SCOTUS judge), and this post is directed at those individuals. 

Roughly 30,000 people are killed with guns every year in the United States. 2/3 of that number is from suicides, and the remaining ~10,000 are homicides. While mass shootings often bring this issue to the center stage of public discourse, they are a statistically insignificant number, accounting for roughly 300 deaths per year in a population of 330 million people. 

The 10,000 people killed with guns per year is nothing short of a tragedy, and I do think there needs to be action taken to decrease this number. That being said, I don’t think it is a good idea to pursue this goal by repealing the amendment that allows for an armed population. 

It is my belief that an armed population serves as a crucial check on government power. By having an armed citizenry, the distribution of power is not entirely consolidated within the government. I think it is dangerous anytime the ability to use violence is centralized. The 2nd Amendment serves to distribute power back to the people, and ensure that violence is not exclusively a tool for the government.
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The thing about the 2nd amendment being a check on the government is that it's outdated and disingenuous. It's disingenuous because people who make this argument are typically not in favor of reducing the governments capacity for tyranny in other ways like vastly reducing the size of the military and information state.

Secondly, this concept is sorely outdated. Do you really think handguns or assault rifles could contend with a modern military with computer assisted sniper rifles, drones, etc. Soon the military will have romotely operated tanks and mini tanks. More importantly, the government has the ability to track citizens, freeze funds, black out communications, etc. They have far more control to create optimal conditions to win than they do in other countries.