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So you're okay with others having their rights violated, but your right to own a deadly weapon is sacrosanct despite the public safety issues?Poor example.NYPD's Stop and Frisk restricts rights under the fourth amendment. Just as not being permitted to shout "FIRE!" in a theater restricts rights under the 1st. Flexibility was found to serve public safety interests in both cases. Is the second amendment amenable to such flexibility, or must we suffer the consequences of a society awash with deadly weapons?
NYC's stop and frisk does violate the rights of the citizens of NYC. However, that policy does NOT punish Me for what NYC police are doing. Ending Stop and Frisk does NOT punish Me for the crimes of the NYPD.
Taking away gun rights punishes the innocent for the crimes of a very few.
False premise.
Try again.
What? You are willing to have over one hundred million honest gun owners rights trampled because of the criminal behavior of less than 20,000 bad people? How about we lock those bad people up forever and then you can go back to your blissful ignorance...