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In reply to the discussion: Can you guess what all this talk, talk, talk about gun control is doing? [View all]jmg257
(11,996 posts)how strongly worded, will not matter when opposed to the decided sense of the pubic'. I see no need to repeal anything. For instance, the 2nd amendment has been circumvented before. (see 1994 Crime Bill, NY AWB, Gun Free School Zone laws, and other numerous and various municipal, state and federal 'gun control' laws).
Never said (or even thought) all legal gun owners are knuckle draggers - in fact, mine and those of most others I know clear the floor by numerous inches. (so I'll skip the statistics, thanks!). However, there are those I would prefer did NOT have such unfettered access to guns, and/or guns of certain types/capacity.
My comments are based on experience, and the notion that better background checks and typical restrictions won't matter much IF the real goal is to substantially reduce the levels of gun violence, gun murders, suicides, massacres, etc. Only severly reducing the number of guns will do that. And the only chance of doing that is by banning AND confiscating the ones found desirable to remove....NOT by allowing the entire nation to stock up on the deadliest rifles, handguns and accoutrements available every time there's the slightest whiff of 'a new ban'.
In re: C Heston quote, my post is accurate...see:"...NOT by allowing the entire nation to stock up on the deadliest rifles, handguns and accoutrements available every time there's the slightest whiff of 'a new ban'". There are ways to do that...but it takes the people to have the will, and the balls, to get it done.
As for "mental health" issues, see: "...IF the real goal is to substantially reduce the levels of gun violence, gun murders, suicides, massacres, etc. - only severly reducing the number of guns will do that."
Otherwise, what is being done or will be done that will REALLY matter?