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53. Your arguing from emotion, not from fact

Fact, Armor piercing bullets have been illegal for civilian to possess for a long time,
Fact, AK-47's are illegal to own without a BATFE crawl up your ass background check, and as of 1986, any new machine gun or select fire weapon is illegal.
Fact, not just anyone can legally own a firearm, quit parroting the Brady/MAIG/VPC propaganda.
Fact, I loathe the NRA, but they are a powerful org. who have helped write some of the gun control laws, ie: they worked with the Brady org. on the background check system. I'm more of an SAF supporter.
Fact, support for more gun laws are way down in this country.
Fact, according to the FBI's UCR, violent crime is at it's lowest point since the 60's yet there are more guns in circulation. I'm not saying that more guns=less crime, I'm saying more guns does not=more crime. There are many reasons for the crime rate falling.
Fact, In the McDonald v Chicago, all 9 justices agreed that the 2A is defined as an individual right, not a collective one, The dissent was on the level of restrictions.
Fact, the vast majority of gun owners are honest law abiding citizens who own and use firearms responsibly. There are over 300,000,000 firearms in this country in civilian hands, there will always be the tiny minority that abuse firearms.
Fact, there are already more than 20,000 Federal, State and Local gun laws on the books, how about they start getting enforced before passing new useless laws?
Just because some whacked out POS murdered 12 innocent people is a reason to restrict my rights even though I had nothing to do with it?
That's like saying because the KKK or the Ayran Nation spew their vile bigoted hatred is a reason to restrict my 1A right even though I loathe and reject what they spew.

There are certain measures I would support,
1. Currently, it is illegal for a private seller of a firearm to access the NICS system to check and see if a prospective buyer is a prohibited person. I would change that to opening up the NICS with a sale/no sale system.

2. I would like to see the Federal Govt. put more pressure on the states to better report to NICS who is prohibited from owning a firearm ie: felons, people adjuicated mentally unstable, convicted of domestic violence.

3. A Federal Reciprocity for CCP, if you can carry in NV, you should be able to carry in CA. Same as a driver license.

Thats just a few of them.

Guns are here to stay, you will never be able to ban or get rid of guns in this country.