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In reply to the discussion: Your second amendment rights are getting in the way of our rights. [View all]Sirveri
(4,517 posts)The state obviously has a compelling interest in making sure whack jobs don't get guns. The thing I take offense to is that somehow my second amendment rights are getting in the way of anything. I'm a stable law abiding citizen, I'm not preventing you from doing anything. Want to have a paperwork check, sounds good, two week waiting period for the first gun, then issue a license to purchase, add this duty to the county LEO's to handle it. Create a system and have mental health providers flag folks, give a test to everyone who isn't flagged. This isn't hard and probably wouldn't be all that expensive. But when you lead with your opening inflammatory statement everyone will think that you're a gun grabber. It tosses legal owners into a defensive posture, that's not the way to get people behind you.
I'd be OK with maximum magazine sizes too. Rather keep 17 rounds for my 9mm because I'm lazy and don't like having to reload that often on the range, but it's cool I don't need more than ten (which is the CA max) if I need to actually use it. Which is something I doubt I'll ever actually need to do.
As for bombs, folks can make those in their kitchen with household cleaning products and info from the internet. Not really the same story.