Your guide to semi-automatic rifles

[bighart]

78. One problem with that argument however

No adjudicated constitutional right to smoke cigarettes.

Like it or not the second amendment significantly changes the debate.
Since the courts have ruled that individuals have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms all discussions and attempts to regulate MUST start with that as a given.
If you want to ban all private gun ownership you are going to have to work to repeal 2A
If you want to restrict private gun ownership you are going to have to craft legislation that will hold up to legal challenge based on 2A.

As so many have said before we all have a right to our own opinion but we don't have a right to our own facts and the courts have in FACT ruled individuals have the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to own firearms.

Meaningful gun control has to begin from that starting point or we are trying to scoop water with a sieve and will never make headway.