Texas has open carry laws for virtually all firearms and all knives up to and including swords. They're obviously slacking because RPG's are not legal to open carry yet, nor are Stinger missile launchers. The average citizen should be able to prepare themselves for armored attack as well as aerial assault. It's in the Constitution somewhere.
See i agree. I honestly don't think you can make a big impact without getting rid of them all together and that simply is not happening.
So it makes no sense to make a better effort? We can almost instantaneously track the owner of a vehicle used in the commission of a crime; shouldn't that be true of a firearm?
I don't know. NJ has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country without having to completely ban guns and we seem untouched by insane mass shootings.
That's just luck. Although it does seem unlikely that somebody would buy heavy armaments and drive them in to commit an atrocity. Colorado, Florida, Texas and California. That's where the violence is escalating in terms of mass shootings. The first three are explained by a combination of lax gun laws and population. California is one of the more tightly regulated states, however the regulations were put in place in the early 90's and they are not enforced as strictly in the rural areas in the north and east of the state. California's population is also out of control, with one in eight US citizens residing in the state.
The only way to achieve any sort of gun control is if it becomes financially unfeasible for manufacturers and retailers to continue upon the mass proliferation of weapons and ammunition. Create and enforce strict licensing requirements for the purchase of guns and weapons, force manufacturers to pay for those systems, and enforce it with huge penalties and maybe you see a change. Another interesting idea I’ve heard thrown out is to treat guns and ammunition like cars, requiring a license and insurance at purchase. Once insurance companies start paying out for their insured mass shooters and rates go higher, maybe the financials of gun ownership will become a barrier. Obviously conservatives would have huge issues with any policies resulting in such financial restrictions. But it is dishonest to even discuss weapon bans if we don’t simultaneously discuss banning them in movies and entertainment. The MPAA deems smoking inappropriate for minors but weapon violence appropriate. That seems absurd. Filling our minds with the violent imagery of gun violence is also part of the problem. If guns are such terrible objects why are they acceptable devices of entertainment. You can’t ban them for freedom of expression reasons, but you can make their inclusion be an automatic NC17 rating. Of course would liberal Hollywood be willing to take the financial hit by not selling gun violence to kids in theatres and TV? They would clearly oppose it. As long as money is to be lost there will be no sensible gun change.
Tell that to the NRA. There's no way the founders could have ever envisioned rifles with the capacity modern weapons have today. Since the Constitution is a living document which IMO was the way the founders designed it, its time to get a bit more specific in the wording of the 2nd amendment. Not repeal it, but modernize it. its not 1787 anymore and people for the most part don't hunt for sustenance.
Considering they had seen technology like the Girandoni air rifle I think they probably envisioned more than you think. Of course, no one can predict the future. They were pretty smart to put a mechanism into the government that allows them to amend the constitution. Go for it.
Gosh, why doesn't The Donald want the FBI looking into his business deals? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/trumps-business-of-corruption Adrian Chen predicted the Russian trolls in 2015: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html and https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-russia-dominates-your-twitter-feed-to-promote-lies-and-trump-too "“I created this list of Russian trolls,” writer Adrian Chen told the Longform podcast in December 2015. “And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. I don’t know what’s going on, but they’re all tweeting about Donald Trump and stuff.”" Ron
Meanwhile: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...293442-158a-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html "Domestic abuse allegations against a senior aide were ignored, pointing to a potential high-level coverup. Two Cabinet secretaries were caught charging taxpayers for luxury travel. A Playboy centerfold alleged an extramarital affair with the president. And the special counsel’s Russia investigation was intensifying. The tumult was so intense that there was fervent speculation that President Trump might fire his chief of staff." "“For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” said the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal conversations. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just getting pummeled.”" Ron
The funny and sad thing is that basic steps like background checks for all gun sales have overwhelming support in poll after poll including from gun owners, NRA members, and Republicans. I agree that the constitution wasn't written in stone. It is a document that should be updated to satisfy the needs of the 21st century. The only constant in life is change.
