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The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, and that right must be preserved. But citizens do not need weapons capable of killing many victims quickly. They do not need “bump stocks” that convert a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun-like weapon.
Background checks should be applied for every purchase, not just those by licensed dealers, and people with mental health issues should be monitored better and prohibited more reliably from buying weapons.
Did you notice that Donald Trump labeled the Sutherland Springs massacre a mental health problem, not a gun issue, after he worked with Congress in February to loosen mental health restrictions on gun purchases? |
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PHORTO
(11/23/2017)
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No way to comment. Of course.
"But citizens do not need weapons capable of killing many victims quickly."
1) Yes, they do. According to SCOTUS precedent (U.S. v. Miller, 1939), the types of arms under 2A protection are those that have "some reasonable relationship to the . . . efficiency of a well-regulated militia".
2) Protected rights are not subject to the majority's assessment of what people "need". |
| Comment by:
dasing
(11/24/2017)
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| NOT a matter of NEED, it is a matter of want...and they are legal firearms, DUH!!! |
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| The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right. [Nunn vs. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846)] |
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