OdgenTugbyGlub said:
This is non-logic. Why not take the dangerous criminals off the streets? Because of that same piece of paper you keep defending your right to buy guns with, The Constitution. We can't just abduct people we deem "dangerous criminals" and put them in jail for an inderterminate amount of time.
I think you are stretching here, by taking criminals off of the streets, most people mean by lawful arrest after the commission of a crime, this seems like an attempt to discredit the poster.
The second amendment does not say that we must make guns easy to get or that we must allow the sale of assault weapons. To me gun control is just making sure the wrong people dont get guns, not banning guns alltogether.
Actually, the second amendment does not agree with the above statement "........the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", gun control does not hamper the criminal; ever hear of a filed gun, a smooth bore barrell, the "psst...come hear" guy, all of these factors render gun control worthless. Finally, there is no such thing as an "assault weapon" that is a created legal term, the classes of small arms fire are; Rifle,handgun,shotgun; these are either semi-automatic(one round per pull) Automatic(hold trigger for continuos fire), or burst fire. Assault rifles subscribe to the burst fire category and are most certainly not "assualt weapons" any representative who uses the term assualt weapon is already discredited in speaking about controlling firearms since they obviously don't know much about them.