“One plausible explanation is a lack of trust in the people who would be doing the regulating.”
Sorry, but someone who even hints this might be possible fundamentally fails to understand the purpose of the Second Amendment nor the relationship between the citizen and the federal government.
The Second is not to be traded for assurances that our overlord will respect our liberties after we give up the means to overthrow them. They made that mistake in Cambodia, and the Worker’s Paradise, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Jews did not fare very well under National Socialism if I recall correctly.
(I had the honor of knowing a Jew who had escaped from a concentration camp in southern Germany and spent the remainder of the war in Switzerland. He was kind enough to show me the prisoner number tattoo on his arm. I know the spirit that put them there. That same spirit is in some of the people in power today.)
When I was about 7-years old (1959), I noticed that our neighbor lady had numbers written on one of her wrists.
I had noticed it when she hung wash on the line.
I asked my mom about it and that is how I came to know about tyrants and mass murder. She was Belgian, and after WWII had made her way back from eastern Europe to her home country, where she met and married an American soldier. She told my mother that her whole family had been murdered.
When I was about 7-years old (1959), I noticed that our neighbor lady had numbers written on one of her wrists.
I had noticed it when she hung wash on the line.
I asked my mom about it and that is how I came to know about tyrants and mass murder. She was Belgian, and after WWII had made her way back from eastern Europe to her home country, where she met and married an American soldier. She told my mother that her whole family had been murdered.
Agreed. Someone once posted...we are citizens with rights not subjects with privileges. Well said I think.
Every tyrannical government in history ultimately ends in war.