As the kids sit in their school rooms.

And grandma going to church?

if instead of bans we more effort on regulations - focus on requiring licensing that requires yearly training/testing or something like driving/hunting/fishing license but that would require more money to fund enforcement. I don't think we're ever going to get around the 2nd amendment rights unless we can get enough to amend the amendment.

Welfare check anyone HOARDING ammo? Tipster rewards....

States have tried that and immediately, the zealots sue. This is happening in Delaware right now -

Honestly it would be nice to just get an amendment to the amendment stating that the original and current ENTIRE Second Amendment must be considered and not ignored -

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

That bolded part seems pretty clear at least to me - and they have performed Gold Medal level mental gymnastics to just completely misinterpret / ignore it IMHO. So basically just need an amendment stating "READ THE ENTIRE 2ND AMENDMENT ASSHOLES!!!!"

I hate guns - have lost too many people to them, but have no problem with responsible gun ownership and most people are responsible. And hell if you want an AR-15 or some sort of other weapon of mass destruction, I am actually ok with that too. But just like if I had a funny car - I could drive it on the highway and would have to take it to a drag strip, I think you should have to take your AR-15 to a range or some designated place to use it. One should not be able to walk around with a loaded AR-15 or the like in public. The only reason that I can think of to have a weapon like that in public, is to either kill other people OR intimidate other people by making them think about the fact that you have a weapon that can kill them. As mentioned there should be required training and licensing that is periodically renewed, and there needs to be a national database that tracks ownership/registration of every weapon and the weapons unique serial number. Any gun found without a unique serial number should be considered contraband. Also, not sure how difficult or practical it would be but if possible, a "ballistic fingerprint" of every registered weapon should also be performed and placed into the database as well by the manufacturer. I do not know - but there has to be a better way.

FDT ✊!

I guess it is, though...

Certainly our nations top politicians at the time could not have possibly had the technical crystal ball to envision the powerful killing machines available now. So, in my most humble opinion, we should maintain a strict interpretation of the 2nd Amendment to only include weapons that were available when it was written. (Oh yeah, there's also that little bit about well regulated militias that everyone tends to ignore).

Frankly, it's amazing we don't have MORE gun violence considering the US is absolutely saturated with SA firearms.

is a staggering violation of the Constitutional rights of school shooters.

It's outrageous...



Bloody sarcasm emoji very much appropriate here.

Oh that's right, such things hadn't been invented in 1789 when we ratified the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Nor did we have vaccinations, modern medicines, modern contraception, artificial hearts and kidneys, or combustion engine automobiles. I could go on - but you get it, we all do.

The Constitution is never going to be the final ruling for the way we live now, with the options we have available to us now. SCOTUS has gone off the deep end on "originalism" and it is affecting the judicial benches all the way down the line. Certain groups are using "originalism" because it bends the rules in their favor on certain subjects. Whenever it doesn't favor their side, originalism goes out the window.

What Al Capone thought about the Tommy Gun.

ETA: Remember the violin case?

Got it.