Pop23
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an outright ban is controversial; the manner of wearing Arms, is not.Can you cite any instances where a Person was engaged in self-defense; and arrested for having Arms?What is the police power and what should it apply to, regarding Arms?It was and it went against the District of Columbia, it upheld that individual citizens had a right to bear arms. The court found that six private citizens had a right to own a fire arm thus your idea that DC vs Heller somehow restricts fire arms in the hands of a private citizen is absolutely false.
Heller was the only one that was part of law enforcement, the rest were private citizens with no police connection.
Which has nothing to do with the DC vs. Heller case. Again, the court upheld Heller’s right to bear arms and also other plaintiffs who used the fire arms for target shooting..
Yet (it's sad that I have to keep pointing this out), but an outright ban is the only way to accomplish the stated goal and even that is highly speculative and incredibly suspect, so, unless you are a complete idiot, the stated goal is fake and the actual goal must be dubious, or the left would not be so incredibly afraid to actually make it known.
The argument is that, to reduce gun related homicide you must remove the gun. The argument is disingenuous as you may reduce gun related murder, but the theory is reliant on the argument that "a gun is a prerequisite to committing murder". Secondly, it relies of Murderers complying with the law, which we know is a false hope.
As we see in England, the theory fails. Guns were banned, but the murder rate INCREASED. Proof that a gun is not a prerequisite to Murder, indeed, it simply created a void easily filled by other, just as lethal tools.
Would this even matter to those who commit murder? We currently outlaw murder, and Murder can, and often does carry a punishment of up to Life in Prison to Death. You cannot punish anyone more than what is ultimate. You can't kill a murderer twice, and doubling a life sentence is equally foolish.
Murderers Murder, it's what they do. Face it, you lose again.