FTA: &quot;To follow Carson’s logic to its extreme when it comes to the US, however, is perhaps more troubling then indulging his dabbles in historical fiction. Since the end of the American Revolution, the US has been a nation governed by rule of law, not by tyrants or dictators. Presidents leave office after one term or two, not by the barrel of a gun or the hands of an angry mob. They sit next to their successor as he assumes power, on the steps of the Capitol building.&quot;<p>True, but go further back.  In the Revolutionary War, arms in private hands, organized as militias, were a major part of overthrowing the existing government.  The people who did that wrote the Second Amendment.  They did not have hunting in mind, or defending your home against intruders.  They hand in mind that the people should have enough arms to form a fighting force to powerful enough to at least help in taking down a foreign invader (or the government in power).