[quote=Jazzman]
You say this isn’t about the 2nd amendment yet make proposals about laws that attempt to further restrict gun ownership through various means. Hoping to find a clever way of greatly restricting gun ownership without violating the principals of the 2nd amendment.
Tell me what is there to violate? An anachronistic right that is irrelevant to contemporary society, or the sanctity of life? It would be a Knave of Hearts Trial. If the founding fathers were alive to ask, there is little room for doubt as to how they would reply. You either speak for humanity, or your speak for the pro-gun industry. Choose at your peril.
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Then for you the solution is quite clear change the second amendment. Either remove it completely or change it to be more narrowly defined. If it was so clear cut and obvious to everybody why haven’t we gone down the path of seriously changing the second amendment. We have a democratic process that can be pursued to make that change. The fact is that the American people as a whole don’t seem to be ready to go down that path and make that change. They value the freedoms and protections that the second amendment offers.
Owning a gun or agreeing that there is a right to own a gun does not make you anti-humanity. Those things are not mutually exclusive. There’s been millions of Americans that have owned and used guns that value life and humanity just as much as you do.
It a terrible thing that happened. It’s a terrible thing that will happen again unfortunately, but this world has risks. Terrible things can happen in a police state where guns are banned. In many cases far worse things have happened, especially when a tyrant comes to power.
