It does NOT look like the kind of gun I have ever seen army people carrying. That's why we can be sure it's not a semiautomatic. |
Once again, different poster, but nobody cares. Make gun laws consistent across states at a minimum so that guns are not so easily straw purchased, for starters. |
+1. They cannot. They blather on and on about automatic-this-or-that, completely incognizant of the fact that no one else cares. I can describe an assault weapon easily. Can it kill somebody? Yes? Then it’s an assault weapon and the public should not have access to it. Period. |
Or, better yet - just ban them entirely, and then such half-measures as you propose wouldn’t be needed at all. Simplify. |
Jack Sparrow has an assault weapon?
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Sounds good to me. Or we could just support legislation like other first world countries like the Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, Norway and the like with sensible gun control measures: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons#chapter-title-0-3 |
The United States should be a leader, not a follower. Those other countries still allow gun possession to some degree, and have the statistics of guns homicides to prove it. Yes, they have fewer gun killings than we do - but they STILL have gun killings. Following their examples will lead only to reduced gun killings - not zero gun killings. Better we should follow the lead of other first world industrialized nations - China among them - which have totally banned guns from civilian hands in most cases. Tim Walz has a scholarly relationship with China, and would be extremely useful in crafting and implementing such a measure here. The second amendment is obviously an impediment as the USSC has currently found, but with the addition of judges to the court to correct the hard-right slant it currently has, a new interpretation of the second amendment can quickly be ruled on, allowing for effective, common sense gun safety laws to be put in place, according to the text of the amendment itself - .... a well-regulated militia... - in other words - the military. The military can bear all the arms it once, with constitutional approval. |
Ah, so we will be banning knives, pens, pencils, hammers, etc. All can kill. We will be eating meals with sporks, unless they are deemed to dangerous. As Thomas Jefferson has said “I prefer dangerous liberty over peaceful slavery”. |
Can it kill you? Yes? I believe there's your answer then, idiot. |
Thomas Jefferson is a dead white male slave owner and completely irrelevant to modern times. And yes, all those things you listed are potential weapons as well. And we should examine doing away with them or making them less dangerous, AFTER we've gotten all the guns. No argument from me at all. None. |
A AR16 is just a deadly as a nuclear bomb to the kindergartner being shot by it. The distinction is pointless to them. |
Also if we are going to defer to the reverence of Jefferson, let's also be honest that he thought we should redo the constitution if it didn't suit the will and needs of the people given that times change. "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors" |
Also Thomas Jefferson: "Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right" Basically the PP is violating the beliefs of Jefferson because they believe the constitution of our ancestors should be forced on us in modern times and never changed. |
Fine start the constitutional process of repealing the 2nd amendment. |
| Your right to own a musket shall not be infringed. Or we can repeal it all together. No civilized society lives like this. |