When the majority of Americans want common sense gun laws to secure their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, the minority who want unfettered gun rights must concede to the will/power of the majority.
Is that how it works? Just because “the majority†wants it?
What if “the majority†of the country used some interpretation of higher crime rates committed by minorities to justify “common sense laws†that targeted minorities?
I support stricter regulations for guns but it has nothing to do with “the majority’s†thoughts or desires or anything other than common sense and what is practical for this right.
Why do we hold elections if we aren’t governed by the majority? Who do you think gives power to our leaders? Do you want to he governed by someone other than the majority?
I would question your conclusion that the majority wants stricter gun laws, but it that is true then there is a tried and true mechanism to grant that majorities wishes.
BTW, it is being discussed in SCOTUS as I write, and it doesn’t look good for the bump stock ban, but not for the reasons most predicted. They are going back to the Chevron debate and asking why congress didn’t simply make them against the law. They are more interested in the ATF overreach.
Whether the majority wants stricter gun laws will likely be made evident during the next few election cycles.
The Sandy Hook kindergarten class is graduating from high school this year and will be eligible to vote in November. The Uvalde shooting last year was right about graduation time and seems to be evidence that our gun problem hasn’t magically solved itself. These kids have had active shooter drills throughout their school life. I think, although I don’t know, that they might feel more in favor of common sense gun laws than some of the posters on this forum.
Playing devil’s advocate, maybe these first time voters who have grown up in a society with a tolerance for school shootings and having never experienced a life absent of the potential for a school shooting, have become inured to the possibility of change.
It can be difficult to aspire to an ideal that is alien to one’s life experience.
Meanwhile, a school shooter was convicted today in Australia.
Fortunately, no one was killed in the shooting. Or injured. Only three shots were fired, somewhat aimlessly, two from the road into the side of a building and one into the lawn.
15 year old had accessed the key to his father’s gun safe (a legal requirement) and taken his rifle, then the parents’ car keys and drove to the school.
This was Australia’s first school shooting. Not this month or even this year. The first ever.
Meanwhile, several thousand guns were recently voluntarily surrendered and destroyed in that state as part of state government’s Gun Buy Back program to facilitate a safer society.
Not sure whether this sounds like a utopian dream or dystopian nightmare to those in the US.
