So you would be just fine with gerald loughner serving some time in an institution, being finally declared ‘sane’ and set free to buy a new toy?
How about the Fort Hood shooter? Any reason he couldn’t serve his time and be allowed to have a gun?
And before you day those are extreme cases, what YOU are suggesting is that no one should able to control these guys getting weapons...and they are not the only ones. Who maintains the public safety?
"Unless there is an immediate and compelling government interest related to other rights"
Our ability to exercise our inalienable rights are always tempered by interference with competing rights of others. Government has the responsibility to pass laws which adjudicate between those competing interests. Our rights are never absolute.
We have the right to freedom of speech, but not to yell "fire", not to brazenly lie without consequences. We have freedom of association, but not if our association is clearly working to undermine other people's rights. Even our right to life can be forfeit if we take the life of others.
what YOU are suggesting is that no one should able to control these guys getting weapons
No, what I was suggesting is exactly what I said, with the exception I clearly stated. What I SUGGESTED was a princpiple that would imply that a state can't just regulate concealed carry based on their own whim. The 2nd amendment applies to the states just as it applies to the federal government.
Concealed carry laws are typical of government nanny-statism. I could carry a concealed gun and I would NEVER threaten the rights of any other person, I would not commit any crime, I would be able to defend myself and others, and would be ready if the unthinkable happened and some other country sent terrorists into a mall to attack our country and it's people.
So what is the compelling immediate threat that government is solving by banning me from carrying a concealed weapon? Why should my right to carry a weapon end at a state border? Why is that a "state" issue? Is my freedom of speech only for federal law? Is my freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, or my right to a trial by jury, subject to the whims of the state?
I believe my position is firmly within the conservative mainstream. I hope this explains my position for you.
The public safety is protected by armed citizens capable of protecting themselves.
The Fort Hood shooter was shooting at UNARMED victims. No law will ever effectively deprive people like the Fort Hood shooter, whether previously convicted of a felony or not, from obtaining and using deadly weapons against UNARMED victims.