I'm totally fine with giving up firearms. They're damn near as old school tech as the pointy stick.

I'll trade mine in for recreational nukes, any time.

Some addenda to your categories. The true Freedom argument is that since I am a free man, I am free to have the means to defend myself. I am, in fact, responsible to defend myself, cuz no one else is, and firearms are the best means of doing that atm.

The best emotional argument is that if you don't feel safe, it's because you're not safe. You're in danger, and you should get armed and trained in how to use your arms. Then you'll be safer, and if you're reasonable, you'll feel safer.

As to the psychopaths, I believe they are fomenting civil war across EU now, and trying to do so in the US as well. The EU is largely disarmed, and would be helpless in an insurrection, letting the psychopaths impose terrible and draconian tyranny.

They want to do it in the US, but we aren't helpless. War would still be profitable for them though, so we need to avoid it at all costs. This is why we should be seeking to make the entire capitalist bankster system obsolete. Should we succeed, we can then just ignore the psychopaths while we take care of our business.

I am actually working on this atm.

Thanks!