06-16-2016, 05:15 PM
It's twelve years since the 1994 Assault Weapon ban expired and the issues have changed.
High fatality public mass shootings carried out by murderers using semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines
are, unfortunately, happening more frequently in today's environment. Many of the weapons were purchased legally by civilians who passed a background check.
My views are changing in line with the times. It's not enough to do more to try to keep such weapons out of the hands of the 'wrong' people and to better enforce the existing gun laws.
The bad guy with the gun is too many times a good/responsible guy (on paper) with a gun right up until he starts slaughtering people. And, the Supreme Court has already ruled that it's constitutional to put restrictions on gun ownership without violating the second amendment.
I now think it should be made much more difficult for anyone to purchase an assault weapon, ALONG WITH enhancing efforts to keep any guns out of the wrong hands + increasing the commitment/funding to enforce gun laws. But, I don't want to see everybody's guns taken away or anything like that (and it doesn't matter to me what the gun looks like; restrictions should be based on functionality).
High fatality public mass shootings carried out by murderers using semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines
are, unfortunately, happening more frequently in today's environment. Many of the weapons were purchased legally by civilians who passed a background check.
My views are changing in line with the times. It's not enough to do more to try to keep such weapons out of the hands of the 'wrong' people and to better enforce the existing gun laws.
The bad guy with the gun is too many times a good/responsible guy (on paper) with a gun right up until he starts slaughtering people. And, the Supreme Court has already ruled that it's constitutional to put restrictions on gun ownership without violating the second amendment.
I now think it should be made much more difficult for anyone to purchase an assault weapon, ALONG WITH enhancing efforts to keep any guns out of the wrong hands + increasing the commitment/funding to enforce gun laws. But, I don't want to see everybody's guns taken away or anything like that (and it doesn't matter to me what the gun looks like; restrictions should be based on functionality).