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Should our Constitution's 2nd Amendment be amended to promote gun control?
Automobiles may kill more humans than guns kill in the U.S."When was the last time somebody drove a car and killed 20 children and six teachers on purpose? When was the last time someone took a syringe full of "flu" into a movie theater to wipe out 12 people on purpose?" Ud
Needed gun legislation in Politics Forum
But we already regulate them. To operate them on public roadways:
- the driver must be licensed
- the vehicle must meet legal standards
- obeying motor-vehicle & traffic laws is required
- cars are being built safer and "better" all the time. Most of a century ago, there were cars on the road with 2 wheel brakes. Today there are cars on our public roadways with:
4 wheel power disc brakes
anti-lock brakes
air bags (front & side)
crumple-zone crash-energy absorption design
collapsible steering column
and much, much more.
So since their proliferation, cars have gotten safer, and better.
In vivid contrast, since the U.S. Founding, guns have gotten vastly more lethal.
Should the United States Constitution's Second Amendment which acknowledges the People's "right to keep and bear arms" be amended to compensate for this divergent technological trend? Safer cars, and ever more deadly guns?
Should be completely repealed. Pleanty of countries get on just fine and a lot better than us without 2nd amendments.
Except when they march their citizens into death camps.....Europe murdered 12 million people that way.
And of course everyday crime increases...women are raped and people are robbed and stabbed...but that's okay...they have national healthcare..right?
Pleanty of countries allow private ownership of firearms without a 2nd amendment. It's redundant.
Emotional claims that the right to possess deadly weapons is so important that it is protected by the federal Constitution distort intelligent debate about the wisdom of particular aspects of proposed legislation designed to minimize the slaughter caused by the prevalence of guns in private hands. Those emotional arguments would be nullified by the adoption of my proposed amendment. The amendment certainly would not silence the powerful voice of the gun lobby; it would merely eliminate its ability to advance one mistaken argument.
It is true, of course, that the public’s reaction to the massacre of schoolchildren, such as the Newtown killings, and the 2013 murder of government employees at the Navy Yard in Washington, may also introduce a strong emotional element into the debate. That aspect of the debate is, however, based entirely on facts rather than fiction. The law should encourage intelligent discussion of possible remedies for what every American can recognize as an ongoing national tragedy.
Should be completely repealed. Pleanty of countries get on just fine and a lot better than us without 2nd amendments.
Except when they march their citizens into death camps.....Europe murdered 12 million people that way.
And of course everyday crime increases...women are raped and people are robbed and stabbed...but that's okay...they have national healthcare..right?
Pleanty of countries allow private ownership of firearms without a 2nd amendment. It's redundant.
Without the 2nd amendment written down...where people can see it...we would have lost our gun rights decades ago....just like the French, the Germans, the British, the Australians........
Don't be afraid to read this piece........it's one of the best I've found on the issue and it comes from a very knowledgeable source.
The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”
Those are five reasonable words.
Don't be afraid to read this piece........it's one of the best I've found on the issue and it comes from a very knowledgeable source.
The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment
Don't be afraid to read this piece........it's one of the best I've found on the issue and it comes from a very knowledgeable source.
The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment
Don't be afraid to read this piece........it's one of the best I've found on the issue and it comes from a very knowledgeable source.
The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”
Those are five reasonable words.
Should be completely repealed. Pleanty of countries get on just fine and a lot better than us without 2nd amendments.
Except when they march their citizens into death camps.....Europe murdered 12 million people that way.
And of course everyday crime increases...women are raped and people are robbed and stabbed...but that's okay...they have national healthcare..right?
Pleanty of countries allow private ownership of firearms without a 2nd amendment. It's redundant.
Without the 2nd amendment written down...where people can see it...we would have lost our gun rights decades ago....just like the French, the Germans, the British, the Australians........
Actually, in Germany, depending on profession, you can apply for a gun license. And there are shooting clubs in Germany (Schiessvereine). Really, you should inform yourself like an adult before making blanket statements.
I usually do."You really should use the quote function in order to keep stuff from getting mixed up." St
And how is gun control working for the civilians in Syria? Or Iraq, or for the Kurds, the Mexicans, and any of a number of countries with disarmed civilian populations whose governments have murdered them?
There is no escaping the fact that our resident nutbags are misinterpreting the intent of the founders so they can soothe the fear that eats at them daily by having a weapon that can kill at a distance by their side.
This fear permits them to give vociferous support to political corruption in the form of bought and paid for politicians who do the bidding of the NRA.....as well as threats of monied opposition issued to those who would vote against the NRA. In addition.....they gladly accept the judicial activism that has led to the revision of how the 2nd is interpreted in our courts.
In time.....this too will end. This is a center left nation. We always wind up in the right place. The machine turns slowly....as it should and as it was designed to do.
And how is gun control working for the civilians in Syria? Or Iraq, or for the Kurds, the Mexicans, and any of a number of countries with disarmed civilian populations whose governments have murdered them?
Oh....you are back to discussion tyranny again. Convenient. That's what you always do. But....in fact....your primary concern is fear of personal injury at the hands of a thug. The opposition to tyranny can be maintained with regulations on firearms. Easily.
Instead of firearms ownership being a constitutional right, it should be a granted priviledge. Just as a concealed-carry permit is required to do that, should need one to buy the weapon in the first place.
Should be completely repealed. Pleanty of countries get on just fine and a lot better than us without 2nd amendments.
Except when they march their citizens into death camps.....Europe murdered 12 million people that way.
And of course everyday crime increases...women are raped and people are robbed and stabbed...but that's okay...they have national healthcare..right?
Pleanty of countries allow private ownership of firearms without a 2nd amendment. It's redundant.
Without the 2nd amendment written down...where people can see it...we would have lost our gun rights decades ago....just like the French, the Germans, the British, the Australians........
Actually, in Germany, depending on profession, you can apply for a gun license. And there are shooting clubs in Germany (Schiessvereine). Really, you should inform yourself like an adult before making blanket statements.
Dipshit.....gun ownership is severly restricted in those countries and you have to keep the guns at the gun clubs and have to pass complicated tests....only the rich and the connected get into those clubs....and a gun in a gun club does nothing to stop a woman from being raped, or the robberies and kidnappings and murders.
