re: You cannot require all citizens to be armed.
I don’t know about that.
The Federals now require you to buy approved insurance. Why not guns? As I said, I was informed by the smart people here that Trump would outlaw “Gun Free” zones. So what is to stop him from just adding a paragraph requiring all adult citizens to buy a firearm from an approved dealer or manufacturer?
I don’t know about that. The Federals now require you to buy approved insurance. Why not guns? As I said, I was informed by the smart people here that Trump would outlaw “Gun Free†zones. So what is to stop him from just adding a paragraph requiring all adult citizens to buy a firearm from an approved dealer or manufacturer?
Wouldn't such a requirement itself be a breach of the2nd Amendment? Surely any permissive right implies ipso facto the right not to exercise that right?
Incidentally, this is one of the things that U.S. commentators often get wrong about guns in the U.K. The assumption is that before there were any controls gun ownership in Britain was as widespread as in the U.S.A. Not so. The condition of the country when guns first became available in industrial quantities was such that it would never have occurred to most Brits that they might ever need or want one, so the habit of gun ownershp was never established. They had the right to own, but for the most part chose not to exercise that right.