Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand on banning guns? [View all]SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)I would say today laws plus, limits on the number of rounds which can be loaded at a time. But, more than that an honest dialog on the issue. As it is today while I feel most Americans support some gun control as the debate is framed it is always the two extremes.
I don't want to limit anyone's right to hunt or protect their families. I don't understand though why some of the guns which are now legally available fits those needs. Likewise, no matter what the founding fathers wanted, we are not in the circumstances today as they were. I won't challenge they intended for the citizens to be able to defend the country while an army is being formed. As I understand history they never intended the army we now have, if a permeant army at all. But, we do have a full time military, we also have a the national guards which effectively fits the needs of the citizen militia. But, the end results are if we were invaded by another country or ever felt the need to fight our own government we would fail. Remember Waco? So, even if it was the intent of the founding fathers, and I think it was, those days are gone.
If we could have a real open minded debate without a bunch of people running around decrying any guns or chants of "there coming to get our guns" we may find a reasonable set of laws which both protect the rights of people to own guns without outfitting someone to carry out a massacre.