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In answer to your question; Who would you need to protect yourself from? The Government. That is why the Second Amendment was put into place to begin with. It is also the reason we have Section 1 Article 22 in the RI Constitution. there were millions of people killed in many countries in the last century by their own Governments. That will never happen here you say? The U.S. Army was sent in to stop veterans of WW1 in Washington, D.C.. How about when a corrupt Government fixing elections in Athens, Tennessee? Police you say? The one of the seats in the corrupt election the citizens were stopping was for sheriff.

The problem is not the firearm it is the person behind the tool. You don't blame a hammer for crappy carpentry. Let's not try to make criminals out of good people with the sweep of a pen. How many of these shootings in Providence and around the State are caused by people that already have records and have been released back onto our streets? Let's start there with those that have proven to be unworthy of being in society.