Not around the bend, but smack into the "Truth"
The 2nd Amendment is the Right to Bear arms in Defence of self, state and country, as well as from Tyranny from the government, as our Founding Fathers knew it would unhinge someday.
The last Genocide in North America was in the 1980's when 300,000 estimated Guatamalan Mayan Indians were massacred for their lands by their government, after being disarmed.
In the last 100 year, Europe, Asia and Africa, with the various Govornments practicing "civilized law" and "gun control" having killed more people with Genocide, than were killed in outright war.
Everything the Nazi's and the Communists did were 'legalized' and then carried out.
A Hundred Million +
Obama and his crew working hard to "Compromise" our gun Rights, the NSA , FBI, CIA all Spying and collecting/storeing information on American Citizens, The Prez saying he and his can bypass the Constitution and execute citizens without due process, The FBI openly bragging they weren't going to read the Boston Bombing suspect his Miranda Rights under "Public Safety" laws, and carried through, The vague definition of Terrorist/terrorist acts in these laws, and on and on and on.. ..........Im not a tin foil hat wearer' I just read the news.....
With lunatics in your front room or in the WhiteHouse, the mere presence of Firearms is often the only deterrent needed, and not actual shooting.
They gotta take guns away before they can take U.S. all away.....