Its a shame you dont take the "Well Regulated" part as adamantly as the part you quoteJL said:How about, no.Forest Bueller_bf said:
This is terrible, no doubt about it. Some common sense things can be done.
1) Schools are too easy to access for the most part. Both my brothers and sisters in laws are or were teachers, my wife was for about 5 years, never once did I go on a campus and even get a second glance.
Yes it is a pain and inconvenience to be more restricted, but accessing a school campus is too easy, this is the first line of defense. It needs to be more difficult to get onto school campuses.
2) The age of gun ownership should be raised to 21. All guns.
3) There should be a short waiting period to access a purchase so a complete background check can be made, including a mental health profile. If there are red flags on the mental health profile, then an in person mental evaluation should be done. The waiting period should be long enough for all these to be completed.
4) Reg flag laws, if a family member knows you are dangerous then they should be able to report this. Authorities need to take them seriously.
5) No private citizen needs a machine gun, or actual automatic rifle. I'm not talking about semi-auto here, there is a world of difference. There should be no loopholes to be able to make a rifle automatic.
Type of gun, beside a true automatic, is being made to be a bigger issue than it is. An AR-15 is just another rifle, there are plenty of semi-auto rifles more powerful. In this case, it's not the gun, but the person with the gun that is the issue.
We're a world away from "shall not be infringed."
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