The Second Amendment isn't about hunting or target shooting. That's just disinformation fed to us by those who abhor the fact that free people own weapons. The Second Amendment is about the people of this country having the means to preserve their freedoms from those who would take those freedoms away. So-called assault rifles are the very guns necessary to help preserve that freedom. And maybe, just maybe, after our right to keep and bear arms is gutted, the government may decide it wants to control other basic freedoms, like the freedom of religion or of the press.