High-horsepower sports cars aren't good for anything but fun and speeding, but they're still legal.

I think this is a bit of a disingenuous metaphor. Sports cars are made to get people from point A to point B. There are also drag race events on tracks made for racing where people of any skill level can participate. You'll find at least one in most rural counties, I would bet.

The purpose of a gun for killing things. Any other use of a gun is just training so that you can get better at killing things. You might find that training to be enjoyable, but that doesn't change the fact that you are training so that you would be more effective at killing. And unless you're using a hunting rifle, you're training to get better at killing other human beings. (Don't pretend that you're going hunting for buck with that 9mm handgun.) They are machines made to with the express intent to kill people.

And because this relates to the act of killing, it puts it on a very different level from literally every other type of recreational activity. Because the act of killing massive crowds of people is not something that you have a right to participate in, and what not what was constitutionally guaranteed with the second amendment.

I think the second amendment is grossly misunderstood.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

See, all these die-hard gun rights supports conveniently forget about the first half of the sentence that makes up the second amendment. Your rights to gun ownership were intrinsically and undeniably tied to their use being of a benefit to the society you lived in.

How many gun owners are a member of a militia, or any other organization even remotely fulfilling that purpose? I'm going to make a guess here: A very small number of them. People were supposed to be using these weapons of destruction to defend the country. Instead, they use these weapons of destruction and murder for what the fuck ever it is, I'm imagining its a way of feeling powerful and unafraid, holding a machine that you can end lives with.

This turned into an incoherent rant, and I'm usually better than that. I don't want to outlaw gun ownership. I am just irritated that people cherrypick pieces of sentences from the constitution and use that to claim some divine right. People should be able to own hunting rifles, shotguns; people have a legitimate need for that. But there are far too many people that believe that any person, regardless of their mental state or intent, have a constitutional right to buy shit to murder people with, and it's just foolish.