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The 2nd amendment gives everyone the right to bear arms

While murder is totally wrong, it would be unconstitutional to deny people the right to carry a gun.

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 @9RGQQGD from Illinois  commented…2yrs2Y

While I do not entirely disagree, always remember, one persons rights end where another persons begins. Where someone’s right to bear arms exists, the minute it crosses over someone’s right to LIFE there is an issue. When someone, who has the constitutional right to own a fire arm, aims and fires at an innocent child who has the constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that right to bear arms is no longer that simple. Owning a gun is fine, but they should be regulated and not end up in the hands of someone who is not mentally stable enough to hold a wea…  Read more

 @9WS5YHR from Tennessee  commented…2yrs2Y

Informed Gun Control

Its impossible to legislate gun control. Its an intangible theory. The biggest way that individuals who should not have guns obtain them is by theft, and usually by vehicle break in. Do not leave a firearm in your glovebox or console or trunk, ever

 @BCZXTMR from Indiana  disagreed…2mos2MO

Engaged Gun Control

Your rights do not begin with telling someone else if they can own a firearm.

 @B2B6KD6 from Wisconsin  commented…1yr1Y

If the second amendment is outdated and only apply to muskets. Then that makes the first amendment even older. So anyone that says that, I hope you like going back to pen and paper as your only way of comunitcation. Also, guns save more lives than they take every year. And cars kill more people than all gun deaths combined. You if you really want to ban the thing that can kill the most and the fastest, than I hope you are going to be with the idea to ban cars.

 @B7DLTCL from Massachusetts  disagreed…9mos9MO

Informed Gun Control

A few issues I would like to point out. Firstly, mental capacity tests would open the flood gates for politicians (both left and right) restricting peoples rights by aligning the definitions of mentally ill to align with whomever they want to restrict the rights of. Don't forget when the south had strict gun laws and whom it was exactly who was restricted from owning/ carrying them (hint: it was black people). Also lets not forget, people can lie, and will lie on those tests if they want to shoot up a school, it's not that difficult for lunatics to fit in with ordinary people. Also…  Read more

 @9HZHDQP from Kentucky  disagreed…2yrs2Y

“it would be unconstitutional to deny people the right to carry a gun.”

Yes I agree with you but nobody said that they would restrict anyone from buying a gun... it's just a discussion on if we should establish stricter gun rules or not.

 @9T5VWSZLibertarian from Wyoming  commented…2yrs2Y

Informed Gun Control

Either way you say it limiting access is the same as restricting access. The question is where's the line and when does it infringe on the 2nd amendment. It's about a balance of public safety and not infringing on the 2nd amendment. Most people would agree children should not have access, those with a violent criminal past should not have access etc. etc. the main issue is where is that line drawn for the average adult American.

 @9KNGK9P from Utah  commented…2yrs2Y

yes this is right

 @9JH3D8Y from Georgia  commented…2yrs2Y

these are my thoughts exactly

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