But we have given out that power. You can buy that power at Walmart.

And we give our car licenses. Doesn’t mean you can run over your political adversaries. I didn’t expect the popularity of this line of reasoning: being pro-2A means license to kill. This is sickening.

A car's primary purpose is not to kill or injure someone.

A gun license literally means you are licensed to use this weapon for sport or self defense.

I’m not a public figure but I support the 2A, would you feel sorry for me if I was shot giving a speech?

Would you feel different if Charlie was murdered by a machete or hand grenade?

> A gun license literally means you are licensed to use this weapon for sport or self defense.

I don't know what that has to do with anything. Plus, the 2A forbids mandatory licensing for firearms users.

> I’m not a public figure but I support the 2A, would you feel sorry for me if I was shot giving a speech?

It's not about whether someone supports the 2A or not. It's what they do with their lives that matters. If a person's life's mission is to deny white privilege and defend the 2A despite its obvious risks, then make a public statement that school shootings are an acceptable price to pay so that we can have it, then no, I'm not going to feel sorry for that person if they are shot. It's poetic justice. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

> Would you feel different if Charlie was murdered by a machete or hand grenade?

A machete, yes. That has a legitimate use; as with a car, its primary purpose is not to hurt people. A hand grenade, no, as its primary purpose is to harm people, and Mr. Kirk's mission was to protect the rights of those who want to possess devices whose sole purpose is to harm people.

Permission is not the same thing as power.

> I didn’t expect the popularity of this line of reasoning: being pro-2A means license to kill. This is sickening.

Have you ever heard the phrase "an armed society is a polite society"? It's quite popular among 2A folks, and its rare that someone brings up its implication - that rudeness should be punishable by death.

Should assassins be elected officials perhaps? I wonder who Italy would've elected to hang Mussolini upside down!

It is literally impossible to run a modern society without giving out that power in some way. Hell, even if you somehow managed to not give out that power, people would create it themselves.