I want it to be illegal for an American citizen to own a gun.

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143. NCTraveler, what does representative government mean

but that no one faction gets to have everything all its way? You can blow off steam fantasizing, and I certainly understand that, but frankly I don't find even just fantasizing that a hundred million people's rights and wishes were completely disregarded and stripped at all appealing. And if I did I'd be ashamed to admit I wanted it even to myself. We can have that only in an absolutist, authoritarian state where NO one's wishes matter but those of those who must be obeyed.

Now me, I want this problem whittled way, way down by a series of sensible national regulations agreed to by most voters that attack it from various direcctions, each of which has significant effect and all of which together make a very big difference. But no fantasies. Other gun-bearing nations have sensible laws, and we can too and at some point will.