The best that gun control advocates like me can hope for is a ban on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and high-energy ammunition. That's enough for me.
Please explain the difference in the degree of 'dead' created by low velocity ammo vs. high velocity...and the difference between being killed by one round or ten.
'Would appreciate it if you could also quote the part of the Second Amendment wherein The Founders listed the type of guns we can and cannot have, and the amount & type of ammo with which they can be loaded. Also, please point out the list of places The Founders said we could and could NOT "carry"...and where they said we had to have govt's
permission - and also had to pay a
fee - to carry concealed weapons (CCWs)...or maybe quote the part where The Founders said that govt had the
authority to do ANY of that.
The Founders said we had the right - the RIGHT - to keep and BEAR arms - period - and that congress shall pass NO LAW infringing on those rights. Govt telling us WHERE we can and cannot carry...WHAT we can and cannot carry or OWN...HOW we can and cannot carry (in the open or concealed
) are all "infringements", sir...every darned one of them...no matter how some Philly lawyer or guy in a black robe 'interprets' or spins it.
I'll say again what's been said ad nauseam: The ONLY people in this country who are going to obey any new gun law or gun BAN that your side
thinks ought to be enacted are the same people who have obeyed the
current gun laws
: law abiding people. And they aren't the problem. Criminals and
loons will just
ignore any new law(s)...just like they
always have.
E.g.: The "Gun-free Zone" laws are probably THEE crown jewel in the anti-gun 'crown', right? How well did they work in protecting the folks at Columbine, V.T., Sandy Hook, or any number of other places? None too well, huh. And yet those laws declare it's
absolutely verboten to have a gun -
any gun - within that zone, right? Well, if gun laws are the end-all-and-BE-all of gun defense, how did the guns
get into those places then...and how is it that all those people ended up dead?
And then, of course, we had those bank robbers in North(?) Hollywood a few years back who used
illegal, fully automatic AR15s (or whatever 'twas they had) and armor-piercing ammo to do their deed. How many gun laws did THEY break? AND - IF semi-auto assault weapons had been BANNED at that time - the gun shop whose assault weapons the police 'borrowed' WOULD NOT HAVE HAD ANY FOR THE P.D.
TO BORROW! How might that episode have ended had the shop NOT had those weapons???
My point? Push-come-to-shove, gun laws aren't going to protect anyone. The only defense against a gun that gives anyone any hope at all of coming out on top is another gun...not some goofy
law. That's just the plain truth. The cavalry only arrives in time in 1950's movies.
Good grief! It's waaaaaay past midnight! I'M OLD! I need to go night-night!
Best regards to you, sir.