Wouldn't we be safer if no one had a gun rather than arming everyone?

So the reason folks have guns is to protect them from the government? Thank you for your reply DB.

It’s among them, yes. Your sarcasm is obvious and naive, there is no single reason for anything.  Get out to some of the folks in, say, Tennessee, Rosie. People there don’t collect AR15’s for hunting. 

Don’t tell me you‘d implicitly trust a government to “do the right thing” with a population of disarmed citizens. Even the Founding Fathers were prescient enough to see this was not a good situation. How is it you aren’t?  

  Well stated!  Believing that there is only one single reason for things is the work of the one-track mind.
 

Sarcasm? Because I repeated what I thought you meant to make sure I understood it? You saw that as sarcasm?. Interesting. Thank you for your reply.

So it wasn‘t sarcasm, it was miscomprehension. I would have more preferred the former.