How about banning criminals in law enforcement and school administration like these two? Seems like a more worthwhile idea as opposed to banning guns.You know, you could change the first line of the Second Amendment to just about anything you want: Because the sky is blue. Or, because birds eat worms. The reason given in the first line really doesn’t matter, because the second line trumps it: The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Plain and simple. Any sort of licensing is really infringement.
We can make it simpler than this. If you’ve had any reason to undergo a background check & have been cleared, you get a card that states that simple fact. You can buy guns without a further check (NO RECORDS KEPT) at either a gun store or private sale. You can also go thru the Pre-check line at the airport. One fee, one card & that’s it. The gov’t will be required to keep a database of those that were cleared & issued a card so you don’t have to pay another fee & get another check every five years or whatever. If you are arrested or charged with a crime, that goes to the gov’t that checks if you’re on the card database. If so you are required to hand your card back to the gov’t.
I’d accept it under these terms.
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.
What part of that do you not understand? No to licensing or registration or permission or any other spin words. Not now, not ever.
Here is my plan for gun control that works. Put the criminals in jail and keep them there. When they are in jail they they won’t have access to guns.
What we have here, is a failure to communicate. The Second Amendment only makes sense that cannot be challenged if the citizens of a nation are FULLY informed, and not merely indoctrinated.
The simple possession of a means of self-defense is meaningless unless the necessary skills and knowledge to implement that self-defense are also made available to the individual. This would include the basic care, feeding, grooming and some degree of familiarity with the means of self defense, be it an attack dog or a firearm.
For the instance of firearms, I would submit that ALL youth receive, as a basic part of their instruction in life skills, the proper respect for, and the acceptable handling, of firearms, from understanding the basic mechanics involved, the ability to accept basic instructions in safety and maintenance of the weapon, to the proper means of selecting and framing an appropriate target, aiming, and firing, developing a reasonable of accuracy and the ability to do this repeatedly. This would have a two-fold advantage - first of all, it would greatly increase the number of potential recruits for both law enforcement, and for military service. And secondly, those, who by temperament or basically poor regard for such instruction, would be identified quickly, as potential threats should they ever come into possession of a weapon.
Then there would be for those who, for whatever reason, cannot shake off their superstitious dread of firearms, a secondary course in how to avoid, evade, escape or directly confront an active shooter with malice intent. Of course, it would also be obligatory to have tattooed somewhere on the body of the individual member of this classification, the name and Social Security number, to make identification quicker in the worst case scenario.
No . freaking . way !
Simpler:
US citizen? Check.
Within these United States, its territories and protectorates? Check.
Second amendment applies.
If this were a game show, the originator of this “great idea” would hear a buzzer, receive some Lee stick-on nails, and be escorted to the studio exit.
Having to apply for a license to exercise a right.
Yeah.....no.
How about banning criminals in law enforcement and school administration like these two? Seems like a more worthwhile idea as opposed to banning guns.Federal camel’s nose under the tent.
What comes to mind; “Shall Not Be Infringed”. Clearly a Federal Registry will further weaken our right to own firearms. The ruling establishment wants to confiscate all the firearms and those listed in a federal registry will be where they start.
A “semi-automatic” firearm is one that fires a single round for each pull of the trigger, automatically reloading in between each shot until the ammo is depleted.
This would also apply to a double action revolver. Any single shot rifle or pistol. Foolish.
More like a plan that he fancies sounds benign enough to get gun owners to bite so the slope can be slowly greased.
Government Permission....
The Brits tried.
FU John Stokes.