Nobody is trying to do away with the 2nd amendment, but...

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40. Its not the job of honest citizens to save society from criminals. ...

However an armed honest citizen may be able to save himself from an attack by a criminal.

It does happen. In fact both my mother and my daughter stopped an attacker with a handgun. In the 1920s my mother got off a bus and was walking home from work in a rural area when a guy who had been hiding behind some bushes rushed her. She fired two shots over his head from a small caliber revolver she had in her purse and he ran. In the 1980s the burglar alarm went off in our home and when my daughter walked into the kitchen she found a guy forcing the sliding glass door open. She pointed a large caliber revolver at him and he also turned and ran.

In passing I have had a handgun or a shotgun pointed at me several times during my life. It is simply amazing how huge the barrel of a firearm looks when you are staring down it. I should also point out that I was not doing anything wrong. The individual on the other end of the weapon simply wasn’t sure of who I was or why I was where I was. All ended well fortunately.