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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do we remove 400,000,000 guns from America?[/quote]

the same way we eliminate all cars and so ensure no drunk driving vehicular homicides.  Which is to say, not happening.  Focus on the drivers/shooters, not on the mechanical devices they use.  [/quote]

That is a minority position.  The majority of citizens want increased regulations around guns [/quote]

Majority opinions are irrelevant to rights guaranteed under the Constitution, which exist precisely to avoid tyranny by a majority.  [/quote]

And these are subject to interpretation by the courts.  Ask women, who had a Constitutionally protected right to abortion until suddenly they didn’t.  Was there a new amendment, or was there a new set of SCOTUS justices?[/quote]

Off-topic, but I'll bite.  Unlike the 2nd Amendment, there was no formal Amendment granting the right to an abortion.  It was a Constitutional interpretation that even Justice Ginsburg thought was weak.  Now compare the 2nd Amendment to the 1st Amendment and you'll have a more apples-to-apples situation.[/quote]

Exactly.  What the courts allow under the Constitution changes. The 2nd Amendment has also had different interpretations throughout its history.  If we go back to what was permissible under the original interpretation, the gun control measures of 1790 resemble some of the ideas that gun supporters seem to think are impossible.[/quote]

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