'It Was My Second Shooting, So I Was Kind of Prepared. I'm Always Expecting Something to Happen.'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : There's a strong argument that Americans do have some right to bear arms, and that in some areas of the country -- particularly places where it takes police a significant amount of time to respond, at which point it might be too late -- private gun ownership is truly necessary, or at least highly defensible.
52% : It's also clear that the First Amendment, not the Second, is our only real defense against the potential of a tyrannical American federal government which is, in terms of force of arms, the most powerful entity in the history of the world.
50% : This is normally packaged up with claims that the Second Amendment to the Constitution prescribes a model of individual gun ownership free from virtually any limits imposed by the government, despite the fact that the individual right to bear arms was only established by the Supreme Court in 2008, and despite the fact you already are not allowed to own fully automatic weapons.

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