The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was originally placed there so that the colonial citizens of the new nation would "keep there guns" just in case they were called upon to
defend the nation from foreign intruders. A citizen army was thought to be the best insurance against another British, Spanish, or whatever incursion across our borders.
Now the Second Amendment is treated on all sides as some "god-given right" to keep my guns safe from the intruding US government: including any kind of licensing, control, regulation, limitation, or ("god forbid") take-away practices. I can be "crazy," psychopathic, sadistic, unbalanced, revengeful, violent, or self-annihilating --- but I still have the absolute right to have a "gun at my side." Or so the debate, at least on one side, ensues.
On the other --- paint the bleakest picture of a world gone mad, shooting each other at first sight, in some kind of dystopian post-apocalyptic world -- and you have the insane opposition to guns. Take away the fact that the "world" sees America as a "gun-toting Wild West kind of a country" -- and you have either side of the gun issue living in a fantasy of their own creation.
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