With the destructive power of guns increasing year over year something HAS to be done

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96. I don't consider the 2nd Amd a personal right, so

personally I have no problem with a national registry of existing guns, for instance, where they have to be entered in a new registry within a year or two, with substantial penalties afterward for possession of an unregistered gun, and for an unregistered gun to be contraband.

That ought to make 100,000,000 existing guns legally un-salable. (And confiscatable)

If the popular will is there, I am all for having less guns, or even no guns if that was feasible. I don't like guns at all, except in the way I like other people's religions, favorite books, political ideas, etc.. Other people's right are important to me.

My difficulty is that under Heller I would have to oppose a lot of things that I think are good policy because I can't stand by sweeping restriction of any *personal* right under law, even if I don't think it is a personal right. Heller is the law of the land and I do not want precedents of how sweeping the abrogation of a personal right can get using guns as something legally in the same category as speech, religion, etc..

So Heller has to be overturned before anything major, which means we need to keep having Democratic presidents to change the nature of the Supreme Court.

I'll be interested to see what Obama's commission says.