No matter the trappings of such weapons worship, its ultimate purpose is to protect home and family (and little girls) from infidels. It started when they earned the right to need protection from those pesky Native Americans who had the audacity to live here in a continent they believed they had the right to own and control.
Actually, it started long before that in Europe with various struggles of peasant classes and the otherwise disenfranchised to break the monopoly on the means of force (i.e. resistence) which was used to oppress them. These struggles
continued to serve as the principle basis and origin of a right to keep and bear arms in early America.
It is ARMS CONTROL which was almost always motivated by racism, religious discrimination, and a tool of oppression.
Then those darn darkies that they forced here to do their labor and make them rich had the audacity to cry foul and fight against thier oppressors.
And imagine that the pre-eminent gun rights organization representing all these white oppressors actually fought against the disarming of blacks in the South. More recently, the NRA won an injuction against New Orleans officials in federal court barring them from systematically entering homes and confiscating firearms after Katrina, which were the only protection people had after a complete breakdown in law and order.
Even surgeons and doctors (e.g. typical religious zealots) were carrying guns for protection in the wake of Katrina, as documented by a "First-Hand Report of the New Orleans Tragedy" by Scott Delacroix, Jr., MD published in MedScape Online (who was packing a .38 for protection while entering the hot zone to help save lives).
Be ashamed...of your abysmally one-sided 'Hollywood' understanding of history (though increasingly common).
Yeah, the whole "right to bear arms" thing is an outdated concept IMO. At the end of every arguement it always comes to that doesn't it....BTW, I'm an American and have the right and duty to question my leaders and constitution.
You absolutely have that right to express your opinion, and you are also not alone in your view that the Constitution is 'old' and, thus, should be ignored.
The Framers gave to us a method for changing the Constitution precisely for these very circumstances when society no longer believes some part of the Constitution serves them, known as the amendment process. Making an end-run around the Constitution for ANY right only sets precedent and lays the groundwork for further end-runs, perhaps around those rights you "feel" are still relevant.
In fact, most of the legislation and court decisions the ACLU and American left have vigorously opposed in recent years as end-runs around the Constitution succeeded based on the exact same legal reasoning and theories that were made acceptable by previous end-runs around the Constitution; namely, abuse of the commerce clause and the right to keep and bear arms (championed by the very same American left). Oops!