Salmo,

Take Salmosalar's example above. At one time we had an interest in arming Iraq. Then they became our enemy. Now we're arming them again.

Remember Ollie North? Who knows where those weapons are today.

Sard,
The Second Amendment will never go away because of the First Amendment and vice versa. My beef with the NRA is that I believe they're fear mongers and bring much of the heat upon themselves. They don't hesitate to cry and whine when some piece of legislation is debated that will reduce criminal access to weapons, but they are deafeningly mute when it comes to prosecuting some idiot that's killed someone, or just shot them in the face, because of carelessness or stupidity.