For those who support "gun rights"

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11. Okay

1) Please define "gun rights" in your own words.

Guns don't have rights, people have rights. Those include the right to defend oneself from assault. Reasons for assault are meaningless. One can be assaulted by a random criminal or lunatic or an oppressive government. Chances of success in defense against an assault are meaningless. If the regulating authority cannot or is not required to offer a remedy for assault, defense of same falls to the individual and regulation of how that individual defends his or her self should be held to a very high bar, since the regulatory agency cannot offer an adequate remedy for serious injury or death.

2) Please explain how you interpret the 2nd amendment to grant "gun rights."

Well here's the text (Like that hasn't been posted before):

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

See the part in bold type? The second says that a militia is a good thing to have, and that the members of the militia will be drawn from a populace whose right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. You see that way if such a militia has to be mustered for whatever reason, it won't be drawn from a segment of the population that before such need arises has been exclusively allowed to keep and bear arms.

3) Please give an example of how a regulation has personally infringed your "gun rights."

I guess as close as I can get is a waiting period to buy a pistol once. That ain't much. But nobody is worried about what happened in the past, are they? Changes in public policy impact the future, for a very long time. They don't change the past, they change the trajectory of a culture for good or ill. In fact, the only time the future stops being an issue is when you are dead. That's why people don't like giving up the right to defend themselves because they run the risk of losing their future because of an untimely demise.

Propose all the gun regulations you want, but the first question in everyone's mind will be "what are you going to do if I get into trouble?" If you can't answer that question, they will tell you to fuck off and write it on the back of a one way ticket to the political wilderness.