The 2nd Amendment seems superfluous to those with the privilege to feel safe within their environment.

In reality, the 2nd Amendment is the last remaining line of defense against the US becoming a total police state. Those who can't trust the police rely on the 2nd Amendment to keep them safe from the police.

Gun laws only serve to give the police more power to do what they already do best: Oppress and kill Black, Indigenous, Trans and other Minorities.

@mawr Yup, it is intensely frustrating that a majority of mainline progressives don't seem to grok this but doing so would require them take off their privilege blinders and see a world were involving the police gets people killed and the justice system is little more than a replacement for chattel slavery and a system for grinding down the poor and keeping them little more than meat for the corporate machine.

Of course, that brings comparisons to other countries which have much more intact social safety nets, access to mental and physical healthcare decoupled from wealth on the whole and with smaller, less impoverished populations.

I guess I hate mid-upper class white Liberals in the US.

@wobblewuffess Marin Luther King Jr. was so right about this. (You've read excerpts from his Letter from Birmingham Jail, right? http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/060.html)

I wish his later years of activism in which he (previously an integrationist, which is now seen as a racist concept) and Malcom X (previously a segregationist, which is def racist), both working together essentially realized what has now become the more modern anti-racist movement, and the US Gov assassinated them for it.