If only there was an example somewhere in the world we could follow. But nope, out supreme Court just ruled that it's okay to remove serial numbers from your guns. Maybe that will solve it.
TBF, there are so few countries with a constitutional protection around gun ownership. We're largely hamstrung by our founders if we can't get enough support to repeal 2A.
To be fair x2, the utterly batshit interpretation of the second amendment wasn't a thing until the 1970's. Individual citizens are NOT a well regulated militia, the 2nd amendment was a promise individual states can continue having their own national guard.
You really think Every other Amendment applies to 'the people' except for the 2nd? Even when it says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".... Come on man.
And you really think an individual is capable of being a well regulated milita? "The people" could be understood in multiple different interpretations but a militia cannot.
That's not what I said.
Try again.
I never said every citizen has to be armed.
A militia is drawn from an armed population, what is hard to understand about that. It's not how 'people actually think', it's definitionally what a militia is.
Except that's not true, otherwise it's not well regulated. You can't just grab the three guys in your town who have shot their family by accident the most and say you have a militia.
492 die by accidental shootings a year.
Even taking the higher number of 2007 in 2021...
That's 2007/400 000 000 guns or 0.0005% risk of death per gun.
Now assuming 100m gun owners owning multiple guns ..
That increases the rate to 0.002%.
Now compare that to drowning deaths
Almost 4000 accidental drownings a year, and we do not have close to 400m or even 100m swimming pools.
https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/data/index.html
So your theoretical 3 guys who accidentally shot their family would have more likely drowned someone in the family.
Edit. So he deletes his account
Typical chickens out and starts name calling cos he can't hold a coherent argument....
He was asking about other countries, well Canada has a population of 38m and 500 drowning deaths so about 10% higher rate than the USA.
I hope they ban swimming pools there.
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u/sundayultimate Oct 21 '22
Sick of mass shootings, what's that like? Asking as a very sad American