:lol background checks

[Splits]

People (Dems) need to stop pretending "background checks" will solve anything

First steps:

Ban all assault weapons
Ban mags that carry more than 6 bullets
Felony for not complying - jail time equivalent for drug offenders


Next steps:

Supreme Court to interpret the 2nd amendment literally
Only militia (State National Guard) allowed to carry firearms
Australian-like buy back to get guns out of people's hands
Felony for not participating in the buy-back

[FuzzyLumpkins]

People (Dems) need to stop pretending "background checks" will solve anything

First steps:

Ban all assault weapons
Ban mags that carry more than 6 bullets
Felony for not complying - jail time equivalent for drug offenders


Next steps:

Supreme Court to interpret the 2nd amendment literally
Only militia (State National Guard) allowed to carry firearms
Australian-like buy back to get guns out of people's hands
Felony for not participating in the buy-back


It really is hard to take people seriously when they term firearms as assault weapons. They just shorten the barrels and similar nonsense. If youre going to regulate an industry you need to think like industry in how they actually manufacture their product.

[spurraider21]

the second amendment is admittedly tricky to "interpret literally"

i mean it does say the right of "the people" to bear arms, not just the right of the militia. if thats what they really meant, they would have just said "a well regulated militia's right to bear arms shall not be infringed"

[boutons_deux]

a badly worded, 18th century 2nd Amendment needs to be replaced completely. BigGun has paid to perverted it completely, for profit.

USA gun rights in the Constitution puts USA down there with backward, 3rd countries of over 150 years ago.

How many countries have gun rights enshrined in their constitutions? (http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/05/how-many-countries-have-gun-rights-enshrined-in-their-constitutions/)It is actually quite unusual for gun rights to be included in a constitution.

In our historical study of constitutions, my colleagues and I identified only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) that had ever included an explicit right to bear arms.

Almost all of these constitutions have been in Latin America, and most were from the 19th century.

Only three countries – Guatemala, Mexico and the United States – have a constitutional right to arms.

Of the 15, ours is the only one that does not explicitly include a restrictive condition.

Of course, many Americans, and a minority of the Supreme Court, believe that our "militia clause" amounts to one such a restriction – an interpretation the court rejected in 2008 when it ruled that the Second Amendment protected the individual right to bear arms.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/05/how-many-countries-have-gun-rights-enshrined-in-their-constitutions/

But America and Americans love to defend perfect America as a violent, murderous country, at home and abroad. Killing people with guns if fundamental to American self-definition, pride.

[pgardn]

People (Dems) need to stop pretending "background checks" will solve anything

First steps:

Ban all assault weapons
Ban mags that carry more than 6 bullets
Felony for not complying - jail time equivalent for drug offenders


Next steps:

Supreme Court to interpret the 2nd amendment literally
Only militia (State National Guard) allowed to carry firearms
Australian-like buy back to get guns out of people's hands
Felony for not participating in the buy-back



Yeah.

No background checks for elementary school teachers either. This job would never attract pedophiles. There is a difference between solving and attempting to decrease the probability of an event occurring.

[Blake]

People (Dems) need to stop pretending "background checks" will solve anything

(Trump) favors background checks

[hitmanyr2k]

And this is the reason Thomas Jefferson supported re-writing the Constitution every 20 years. At least one guy had the foresight to realize their 18th century laws may not apply to the same situations as future generations.

[Aztecfan03]

the second amendment is admittedly tricky to "interpret literally"

i mean it does say the right of "the people" to bear arms, not just the right of the militia. if thats what they really meant, they would have just said "a well regulated militia's right to bear arms shall not be infringed"

Don't confuse him with facts.