@oralloy,
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Why does it matter what method is used to kill someone?
Murder victims are just as dead no matter what kind of weapon is used to kill them.
Unresponsive answer. At any rate, if you are trying to stop murder, eliminating the biggest source of those murders would be wise.
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"The Second Amendment also protects our right to keep arms.
But it is true that the government should allow people to bear their arms in a well regulated militia if they wish."
Read the Second Amendment and tell me where it gives the right to own arms past the right "to bear arms in a well regulated militia"? I am an absolutist in that if it isn't explicitly denied by the BoR.
However, the Constitution was written to produce order and fire-arm are a show two dangers to order: public health and public safety. I am a patriot and I know when my "rights" interfere with the lives, let alone others' right to the pursuit of happiness, we need to cool the jets and work it out. We stand down and get our gun policy in order. We act like Americans and we fix it. We don't double down on a terrible situation.
Quote:As above, I don't see how it matters that murder victims are killed with one kind of weapon instead of another.
Another unresponsive whiffle of a comment.
Quote:Most gun owners have a proper gun safe. Do you count that as an armory?
Seriously, how do you figure???? And if true - no. It's just another safety lever, but it really does not begin to be the armory of a well regulated militia that our founding fathers lived with and meant.
Quote:Perhaps if I don't have proper regard for gun safety.
Your personal attention to gun safety, while commendable and the responsible thing to do, doesn't do a thing to increase the safety of the nation.
I believe one good move would be to make gun safety classes a part of health classes in schools. When I was a kid, I had guns lessons taught by the NRA. Before the NRA got politically up the GOP's extreme RW.
Don't think these lessons are to make marksmen, it's to teach an eight-year-old what to do or not to do when they happen on some irresponsible owner's weapon.
Another would be: hold parents legally responsible for their weapons getting into the hands of their children.
If you think most gun owners safe their weapons, why not make a requirement to purchase a gun safe if they own firearms.
How about registering rifling of every firearm? Then we could round up more of the nitwits and take their schmere of bad action of all you responsible gun owners.
Restraining orders to disarm anyone accused of domestic violence or those with peace orders or restraining orders against them should be disarmed.
No more concealed carry. Open carry doesn't bother me much. I like the way it lets me know who's insecure in their manhood.
The problem is, most of your fellow gun owners are all for everyone being armed (to the point of voting in Congress against a bill to keep the mentally ill from having firearms), until a whacko takes out a relative. And then their solution is to pack more weapons and more powerful weapons.
What we have just ain't working. We need to stand down and develop a policy that recognizes everyone's rights. Like the Constitution clearly provides: "No one's rights cancels anyone else's rights."