2nd Amendment & Gun Control

This morning I was watching FoxNews Sunday with Chris Wallace.  Senator Feinstein (D-CA) was a guest talking about the cinema killings at a Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado.  She adamantly urged more gun control saying hunters and sportsmen don't need high powered semi-automatic weapons.  This prompted me to send the following email to Chris Wallace:

The 2nd Amendment is not meant to provide guns for hunters and sportsmen.  It is meant to provide the means for the citizens to protect themselves from the tyranny of government.   Our form of government has survived and prospered because the power mongers that lurk in the bowels of government know they will not succeed if they try to wrest the reins of government from the people.  Thus, we need more than simple handguns and shotguns in the hands of the people.  A factor that prevented Japan from attempting an invasion of the West Coast during WW II was the Japanese had no reliable assessment of the fire power in the hands of the people.  Hitler did not invade Switzerland because he knew every adult citizen was issued a firearm.  It's not the firearm that kills people.  It's the deranged mind of a person that kills people.  It's not the matches that start the fires of arsonists.  It's the deranged mind of a person.  Evil has always existed.  Evil will always exist.  What we need to attack is evil.