[Moonman62]

“Emotional claims that the right to possess deadly weapons is so important that it is protected by the federal Constitution distort intelligent debate about the wisdom of particular aspects of proposed legislation designed to minimize the slaughter caused by the prevalence of guns in private hands,” Stevens writes in his defense of the change.

Slaughter is what happens when the people aren't armed. For reference, look up various Communist regimes of the 20th century.

[Bobalu]

Communist sympathizers want to disarm the populace because they fear the same thing Yamamoto did...

Yamamoto, “I would never invade the United States, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass”