It's amusing to hear the excuse of being able to fight a tyrannical government. (which is incredibly unrealistic, and delusional) Which justifies the 2nd be 100% unhindered.
But the same people are ok with restrictions put on other Amendments. Or even them being totally ignored. Say the poll tax- where it's prohibited to charge a tax to vote. But somehow the IDs that are required and that you HAVE to pay for are ok. Curious. Or Government paying for various CHRISTIAN things- from crosses to Christmas celebrations to even a community paying for an Ark museum- that's all ok. Sik and flaggy have both posted things that these things are ok- clearly violations of Amendments. Somehow, though, guns have to be protected at all costs in any form what so ever.
Based on that, it's pretty clear to me that one should just 100% dismiss their BS as being 100% self serving, just like the abuse of the other amendments for their self serving.
We CAN go back to reasonable arms restrictions. Again, the assault weapons ban was legal. Perhaps not well written, and that can be better clarified. But legal. And during the entire time that the ban was in place, we had the lowest mass shooting rates.
The very obvious reply is that criminals will still be able to get these guns. The Texas AG even mentioned that- there will be a black market for these weapons. And I call BS on that claim. 1) as the AG- DO YOUR JOB. The only arms industry who makes arms is here in the US. So regulating making these mass killers from being made is easy. Which leaves the weapons out right now. If you let your state generate this massive black market, you are a very bad AG. 2)- so lets put background checks on ALL sales. require some kind of documentations for these things. This isn't draconian- if they can keep track of every car, and there are equal number of total guns, AND the number of weapons that shoot fast and have large magazines is a subset of that- keeping track of some of them should be easy. For those who don't want to do that (mind you, some already are being tracked)- it's highly unlikely that they will turn to the black market to sell these guns- they will get more money legally selling them. Or they will just keep their stockpile.
This is a more realistic idea than us pretending that we can address these mass killings via a mental health path.
Has anyone actually posted a useful and probable idea to 1)define who is not mentally healthy enough to get a gun? 2) a solid plan to not let them have a gun? Drew railed on the idea that mentally challenged people could not get a gun not too long ago- so the "logic" and "reason" part of the NRA does not actually exist. This seems very unrealistic.
A gun restriction has been in place before AND IT WORKED.
