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In reply to the discussion: Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg: St. Pete Police [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)The point I was trying to make about drunk driving laws wasn't that the laws stopped the majority from driving drunk. It was attitudes about drunk driving that changed for the vast majority, so laws were put into place to which may have now had an effect on a small minority. However - also a different conversation - many of those laws are now so extreme that they go well beyond being in place for public safety, and are simply a form of puritanical punishment. Same goes for a lot of the tobacco laws in various states.
If you want to change the constitution, you can try. I don't mind if people are allowed to own whatever weapons they want. I think it's far more important that they're just sensible about it, but I don't see that conversation happening. I see an us vs. them mentality, and I don't think it's good.