Guns: how much longer will it take ....

Ah, you're correct. We shouldn't be congratulating ourselves over dire past situations that happened in other countries as if we live in Utopia.

I didn't mean to imply you are not in Europe.....it's my fellow Americans lack of understanding of history that drives me to distraction.

What country in its right mind would want Oralloy as a citizen?

We definitely don't want it over here.

But it was a noble cause. That's wy the Terror was so trajic.

So you are saying, that the majority of mass shootings are more like the Las Vegas shooting than the Parkland school shooting? That Parkland is the exception and not the rule on mass shootings? I'm interested in your opinion.

I say again, take a half dozen or so of the worst cases of demokkkrat machine controlled US cities out of the picture, and US murder stats are among the four or five lowest in the world. The thing we need to outlaw and ban is the demokkkrat party.

Since you live in a world of "subjects" your opinion is moot.

That phrase acknowledges important government interests that the government has the legitimate authority to pursue.

I think I see the source of the confusion. There are two issues here. One is whether a restriction on a right can be justified as serving an important government interest. Another is whether a restriction prevents people from exercising their rights.

Bans on pistol grips are unconstitutional because they do not serve an important government interest.

What you are focusing on however, is the question of whether the exercise of the right is impeded.

In that light, the reason why bans on nuclear weapons are allowed is because those bans do not impede people's ability to defend themselves against criminals.

Those cutting edge (for the time) 12 pounders were a big help at Yorktown.

You said that "gun-free zones" are what leads to mass shootings, not the proliferation of guns. This is irrational and false. Vegas is only one counter-example among dozens in recent memory, where a mass shooting happened outside of a gun-free zone.

Facts are stubborn. They don't disappear when you ignore them.

Ditto with anti-aircraft guns. And therefore the second amendment is not currently applied. It is severely curtailed because you poor souls can't be allowed to get as big a gun as you may wish...

Remember that next time you say "Hi" to a Muslim.

I don't say "hi!" to Muslims.

I say "assalamalekom!"

Please don't kill me?

"Peace be on you." Similar to Hebrew's "Shallom!".

Well now you've sent him into a tailspin.