"While the second amendment guarantees the right to own a firearm, it doesn't state that you are allowed to own any [or all] types of firearms," you say.
A right so defined would be meaningless.
We know there is problem with violence. But the intelligent people don't promise to solve such problem by keeping the decent folks disarmed while the criminals roam free. The people in the NRA actually do make a distinction between the criminal and the law-abiding, offense and self-defense, right and wrong.
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