Should we repeal the 2nd Amendment

[SoutherDem]

I know there have been at least two polls but by request I am adding one more with additional options than yes or no. Please forgive the new poll and what could be considered redundancy in some of the questions I want to try to cover as many options as possible. Please add comments as you feel needed.
Thanks


Questions: Should we repeal the 2nd Amendment?

18 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Yes, repeal. NO guns at all.
	1 (6%)
	No, don't repeal. ALL guns should be legal with no restrictions.
	1 (6%)
	No, don't repeal. Current regulations go as far as we need.
	7 (39%)
	No, don't repeal. But, additional regulations are needed. Restrict a few guns and accessories.
	9 (50%)
	Change to make more clear to intent. What are militias in 2012, what are arms in 2012.
	0 (0%)
	Update to consider modern weapons.
	0 (0%)
	Update to consider modern armed forces including national guards.
	0 (0%)
	Update to consider modern weapons AND armed forces and national guards.
	0 (0%)
	Other, posted below.
	0 (0%)
	Other, don't feel like sharing.
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Electric Monk]

1. kpete posted a graphic that I think is worth re-posting to go with this poll

[permatex]

7. When the 1st Amendment was written

this is what a computer looked like

[MrSlayer]

2. You can't ban guns now. That horse left the barn a long time ago.

There is no way to round up the hundreds of millions of guns and get rid of them. We need tougher regulations certainly but repealing the 2nd or banning guns completely is as near to impossible as flying around the room unaided.

[madinmaryland]

4. Sadly, we are left with this abortion called the 2nd Amendment.

There is absolutely no way we can minimize the number of weapons in this country now.

I guess we are stuck living in a country with a kill now mentality. Thankfully I am in my 50's now, so and I won't have to deal with this shit for 60 or 70 years.

FUCK THE NRA.

[Llewlladdwr]

3. I believe the Second Amendment prohibits any infringment of the People's right to bear arms.

I further believe that this renders all gun legislation in the United States un-constitutional, at least at the Federal level.

And yes, I know I'm in the minority.

[SoutherDem]

11. Thanks for the comment

No matter if I agree or not, you were honest and that was what I wanted. Thanks

[Llewlladdwr]

12. You're very welcome! NT

[AlinPA]

13. Does that include arms like bazookas, stinger missiles and rocket launchers?

[orpupilofnature57]

5. That poll lets the poller articulate ,Thanks

Don't repeal but add restrictions to certain weapons and ammo.

[SoutherDem]

10. Thanks for the comment

I am middle of the road on this one and don't feel it is a yes or no issue.

[Left Coast2020]

6. And wern't the Founding Fathers worried about the British?

[Go Vols]

8. I suspect

this poll will turn out as the other one did.Little or no new regulation regarding guns come out on top by alot.

[SoutherDem]

9. I am eager to see the results.

I also hope for a fair number to vote to get somewhat of an idea as to how DUers feel. Time will tell.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

15. Regulations has bolted out of the gate and is out in front at this point.

[LAGC]

14. Once upon a time in this country...

...you could order kits out of periodical magazines to assemble fully-automatic machine guns, delivered straight to your door.

There was very little abuse of these weapons until the Great Depression when organized criminals and Bonnie & Clyde style robbers started using them against the police.

The Federal full-auto "ban" didn't pass until 1934, and all it really did was place an onerous (at the time) $200 stamp tax on each fully-automatic weapon someone wanted to own. This wasn't a big deal to most organized crime syndicates which could afford to pay it, but fortunately with the repeal of Prohibition and better public works programs to give people opportunity and not be so desperate as to commit robberies, violent crime fell drastically. Of course, the "ban" was never lifted.

If we really wanted to be true to the Second Amendment, we'd let the average citizen (able-bodied adults who are part of the unorganized Militia) be able to own the same classes of weapons as are able to be carried by the average infantry-man serving in the Armed Forces. No, that doesn't mean nukes or fighter jets, just select-fire rifles and accouterments. The whole point of the Second Amendment was to provide a civilian check-and-balance against government power, and I don't see how you can really do that if you only allow civilians inferior weapons.

Of course there will always be occasional abuse of such freedoms, especially during tough economic times, but that is just the price you have to pay to live in a free society. I'd rather live with the occasional outburst of violence than live in a society where personal rights and freedoms were tightly restricted. That doesn't just go for the Second Amendment, but the First, Fourth, and Fifth as well.

[SoutherDem]

17. I didn't know that about ordering machine guns

I remember as a small kid, Sears' catalog has guns. They were shot guns and rifles. I think they may have had to be shipped to a catalog center to be picked up though. Time certainly changes how we do things and how we look a things.

[joshcryer]

16. Thank you for this poll. :)

And thanks for noticing the issue with UL's poll (making it an all or nothing proposition).