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In reply to the discussion: So what's wrong with home security systems? [View all]regjoe
(206 posts)my father being one of them.
Despite all the rhetoric about the evil NRA boogeyman, most gun owners are not NRA members, nor do we keep track of them. Any questions about the NRA and its positions should be taken up with them.
Again, you have your interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, I have mine, the Supreme Court has theirs and the founders had theirs. Yours and mine don't mean jack squat unless 2/3 of the country agrees and we change it. Therefore, we must go by the founders statements and the rulings of the Supreme Court.
Very few gun owners are saying that doing nothing is the solution, you just reject their ideas because they do not fit your idea of what needs to be done.
YES! Changes are coming and gun owners will have to decide whether to fall in line and take it, or VOTE to prevent the changes they do not agree with. This is why I believe we should be smart in how we handle this.
Not wearing seatbelts is not a right enshrined in the US Constitution, so the comparison fails. Even still though, despite wearing them being a law and is agressively enforced, people still disobey the law and not wear them.
There are thousands of gun control regulations already enacted, so your claim that it "isn't happening" also fails. And while every gun is dangerous, not every gun is a danger. You just preceive them to be despite the fact that the vast majority of gun owners have NEVER used them in a crime or even thought about using them in a crime.
Safe or not safe with a gun can only be determined by the individual themself. You don't have a clue if I would be safer without one and I have no clue if you are safer with one.
I am well aware that change is coming, no argument about that. The question is what that change will be, how it will effect the country and how it will effect our party.
Loss of support for the NRA and its 4 million members doesn't mean anything. What DOES mean alot though, is how the other 76 million gun owners decide to vote, and IMHO, if we get the draconian changes some are calling for, they will not vote how you want them to.