Gun Control

1) I wasn't comfused. I was just pointing out that technically, owning a gun is not a right. its legal, but personal firearm ownership is not an inalienable right except in the context of a militia. I was just trying to explain that there is therefore no comstitutional barrier to gun control so it is misleading in my opinion to call it a right. 2) As for the point you made about the ineffectivemess about federal drug law, I think that is actually a good point, though I think you have overlooked two crucial things. -One is that people generally have note of a desire to get high or to make money selling drugs than getting involved with guns. Theres also the factor that people have addictions to drgus that physically affect them. People overall tend to be more inclined to want some weed or cocaine than an illegal firearm. - You cant grow guns in your yard or manufacture them in your basement. For most drugs they are miles easier to manufacture than guns and also far easier to transport. much less people have the skillset for building operating firearms than growing pot and making cocaine and meth. Thats why federal level gun control would be more effective than a federal drug ban which like you, I am very strongly against. 3) In Britain yes people tend to reach for the knife since they do not have access to firearms. Again, two things in regards to that. -It proves my point that with gun control people are much less likley to have guns, which is why they resort to other weaponry. - You can't ban knives theyre tools that you need to function. Alternatives to guns are much safer than guns. They are much harder to kill one person with anddefinetly much harder to mass murder with. There was a case in China where a man stabbed 22 schoolchildren. He did not have access to a gun so be used a knofe. Every one of those children survived. had he had a gun, very few if any of them would have lived. Compare that with the United states where we have had so many school shootings they have become a hot issue to discuss. 4) The old west was a time and a place where guns were everywhere and everyone had one. (Obviously hyperbolic but many more people owned and carried firearma than nowadays.) Things like the OK coral we now look at as isolated and i agree. Similar cases like the recent case of the rexas motorcycle gang are isolated. But if for example, in a bank robbery, if everyone had a gun, there would be a shoot out. The second guy that pulls a gun, how do you know he is a good guy and not helping the criminal. You have given anecdotal stories which I before admitted absolutely exist. But if the bad guy disnt have a gun to begin with, you wouldnt need a good guy. The solition to crime isnt shoot-em-up vigilanteism. No one should have to die. If a man, to use the same example, is robbing a bank and threatening people at knifepoint in a case where gun control exists, the penalty for threats but mever actually stabbing anyome should not be death. The punishment for terroristic threats is not capital punishment. Less guns would give the justice system a chance to work. It's time we face the fact in this country that this degree of mass shootings to the point that they are practically commonplace does not exist anywhere else in the developed world and in non-war zones. 5) What is your opinion on liting magazine size? Whats the reason for anyone to be allowed to have that many bullets in their gun. Make shooters have to reload more. Theres much less practical application for that. You dont need it to hunt or for intruder defense or anything. Im not ecen 100% on banning handguns i just want you to not be a felone first. 6) As for the list of registered gun owners, it isnt like their wouldnt be any indpendant overaight to make sure that it wouldnt be abused. Also, do you vote? You're registered with the government. Were you born? You're registered with the government. Its important for public saftey to have gun owners and felons registered. And if one makes the argument that their freedom is more important than saftey. The constitution does garuntee roght to life. It doesnt garuntee personal gun ownership. Your freedom stops the second the life pr freedom of another is under threat. Children have a right to frel safe in school. People have a right to feel safe walking down the street. i believe that is more important than owning a gun. http://mobile.nytimes.com... US Constitution.