No no no.
We promise to amend the 1st Amendment so that advocating gun control is no longer legal or protected speech. Just start slapping felony charges on anyone who promotes gun control at the expense of our society, and watch the "controversy" quickly disappear.
It’s both unconstitutional and unenforceable.
How would you expect a complete ban on civilian ownership of guns to be passed?
We have guns in our house as well, I'd GLADLY give them up to save 20 kids.
There are over 400 million in circulation. If you banned them all tomorrow, it would not reduce them by a single firearm. Nor would it stop the manufacture, importation or purchase of a single firearm.
Nobody's going to stop manufacturing and buying guns, certainly not a poor person like yourself. Guns are a billion dollar industry, and today anyone in the world can buy guns via e-commerce websites.
I have guns in my house, I'd gladly give them up to save 20 kid's lives. How about you?
Give them to me!
Once you take away a right, it's not easy to get it back.
Maybe if they made it possible to arm more teachers/staff in schools less of this will happen. Put signs on all entrances stating the staff are armed and ready to use their weapons.
Who cares if it saves kids lives?
Would you give up your guns to save 18 kids' lives? I would.
That seems ridiculously expensive. Don’t get me wrong, we are the USA. We could just build like one less aircraft carrier or something. But with the amount of funding schools get this proposal would probably mean spending more on school protection than most countries do on their military. I feel this is an issue where addressing the upstream causes is much cheaper than trying to address the downstream effects.
2nd, 4th and 5th amendment.
The problem is not resolvable. We put the right to bare arms in our constitution and today we have more guns than citizens. At this point, restricting or outlawing guns will only have negative consequences on law abiding citizens, because it won't prevent criminals from possessing them. The only thing right now preventing criminals from robbing people at will, is them not knowing if the people they are targeting are armed or not. If this country had outlawed guns from it's founding it would be different, but since we didn't, trying to prevent ordinary people from buying them now, or trying to get rid of them all together, just isn't a viable option.
Agreed. America is a gun culture, moreso than it is a car culture or even a Christian culture. They are embedded in our collective psyche and identity. And they are a billions of dollars a year industry promoted and protected by one of the most powerful lobbyist organizations in the nation.
I am pro-2A. I am actually shopping for an AR-15 under $1000 right now if you have any tips.Right, and hopefully we'll be able to have you thrown in prison for advocating such.
You simply don't understand. The laws that will ban guns in the hands of civilians will make half of America feel better about themselves and those people will go to sleep knowing that they "did something" to save the nation. THAT is what's important. Then, when it doesn't work they can blame Republicans for not enforcing the law or whatever and THEN they will feel better about themselves and THAT will be what's important. Bans have been completely effective when it comes to drugs, purchasing alcohol by those under 21, speeding, seatbelts, and any number of other things. Why would it be unsuccessful with guns?
Right now, yes. Would such a law ever get passed? What percent of guns would be registered? Would it actually prevent any mass shootings? Would it have prevented this one?
