User blog comment:Rocket Engineer/On the U.S. Constitution/@comment-25330335-20170613012134/@comment-26119768-20170613184259

I will agree that our prison and justice system need to be reformed, but I can't agree that the Second Amendment is no longer relevant. Weapons certainly are more dangerous, but the point is to deter against ambitious individuals attempting to set themselves up as a king or something, along with self defense. Yes, you probably dont need a fully automatic machine gun to defend your home, but banning one type of gun sets a precedent, which are rather nasty and hard to get rid of. Public safety is definitely an issue, but quite honestly it will be a problem regardless of the Second Amendment. Humans are quite good at finding ways to kill large amounts of people with improvised weapons. The risk can be reduced with programs to educate people on gun safety, along with improvements in the background check process.