...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box.

History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.