Yes, I really don't trust my fellow Americans that much, at least a sizable portion of them. This is from 50+ years of observation and personal experience. At present there are 8-10 young male neighbors across the street, ranging in age from grade school to nearly 30. After observing their behavior for some time, I wouldn't trust any of them with a single shot .22 rifle. I've also heard plenty of hi-cap pistol mag dumps in the area at night, and a few 30-round mag dumps where someone was trying to mow down some other gangstas. Must be nice to live in a Wonderland where there's no gangstas and brain dead thug zombies running loose.
If Washington were to come back today, learn about today’s firepower, and comes to visit me, when I don’t own any firearms yet, he’d scold me for not having any, including a few M4A1s for ‘projects’ and parts.
If he visited me I would take him on a tour of the Section 8 housing in nearby areas and show him what the reality of present day American life is like. I stress the word REALITY. He would crap his pants in some of the areas I've been in personally, and not feeling safe even while carrying a Brown High Power and a Dirty Harry .44 Magnum and wearing a Second Chance vest.
If the government honored the Second Amendment, those ganstas would refrain from shooting up neighborhoods, either because they wanted to avoid ending up dead, or because they failed to do so.