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In reply to the discussion: Are you for or against the 2nd Amendment?? [View all]RichVRichV
(885 posts)105. That's my view on it also.
It makes little sense to grant a right to own a specific type of item, especially one so destructive.
I want to abolish the second amendment but I don't want to outright ban guns. I want to make owning and using guns a privilege in the same way driving is a privilege. Something that has to be earned through training and certification, and can be revoked if proven someone can't handle them properly. The second amendment makes that all but impossible.
It's also getting in the way of much more benign and widely acceptable improvements to the laws also.
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Some insight on the "way it is written", because etymology matters.
cherokeeprogressive
Dec 2015
#98
True - it is. And so is the Constitution, which refers to very specific Militias.
jmg257
Dec 2015
#114
I'm against it in it's present form. American's have proved that they can't handle guns.
BlueJazz
Dec 2015
#14
It was an idea that had some merit when passed at the time this country was founded...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#19
If a state or city chooses, via its elected representatives, to restrict firearm ownership,
Nye Bevan
Dec 2015
#22
I see the right to an abortion as more important than the right to own a gun.
Nye Bevan
Dec 2015
#83
I am opposed to the way the NRA, the gungeoneers, and the Gun Industrial Complex
madinmaryland
Dec 2015
#23
If, as you say, and they are not NRA members and do oppose the NRA and GIC,
madinmaryland
Dec 2015
#32
You do realize that many Democrats, non NRA people support the second amendment, right?
darkangel218
Dec 2015
#33
How are you going to take the weapons from the illegal owners , to start with?
darkangel218
Dec 2015
#31
I see it as archaic concept intended to support a national defense via citizen militia.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2015
#69
To me that is defined in, yet often ignored right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Glassunion
Dec 2015
#90
I'm against the insane, baseless interpretation of the 2nd ammendment that prevails today. /nt
Marr
Dec 2015
#99
Whatever...I would pay to see what the founders think of what it led to
BeyondGeography
Dec 2015
#102
i do not believe it applies to individual unrestricted gun ownership. nt
La Lioness Priyanka
Dec 2015
#108
I think that the Second Amendment should be repealed; it's an archaic anachronism...
Spider Jerusalem
Dec 2015
#111