Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand? [View all]glacierbay
(2,477 posts)I asked where you got the idea that LEO carried hundreds of rounds. That's all, don't read more into it than there is.
Very few frontier towns banned guns, there were a few but for the most part, most western towns allowed for the carrying of guns in town, the eastern towns were much more violent than the western towns.
I don't know where you get this banning of guns can be considered as a rational, historical, and constitutional means of curbing violence. A gun ban is blatantly unconstitutional and will never fly in the US. And just what makes you think a gun ban will curb violence, do you think that the criminals won't be able to get their hands on guns? Any competent machinist can crank out guns with just a lathe and drill press, the Sten machine gun is very easy to make. And how about smuggling guns across our borders? You think the black market won't fulfill the need? We can't even stop or reduce the flow of drugs or immigrants coming across the borders, how would you stop the flow of guns?
We have a 2A right in this country and that right is not connected to mititia service as enumerated by the SCOTUS, it is an individual right to keep and bear arms and it ain't going away despite the wishes of some.