The average citizen can't get a concealed carry permit in New York City (and dozens of other cities), but the threat to the second amendment is about to land on us if bump stocks are banned? A bump stock ban, a device I never heard of till Las Vegas, is not a threat to the RKBA. That ship has sailed already.
Consider some 22% of NYC residents are non-citizens, so one in four will have some difficulty. Of course, we all know NYC is one of the safest places to live on the planet. That ship sailed in 1934, to make people "safer". It failed, like every measure which has been passed since. They have provided Federal Agencies with the ability to kill quite a few people from gun collectors to church groups, and I bet that makes you feel safer.
If it helps Trump with soccer moms and helps us win the midterms I don’t give a whit if I can’t get a hold of a nice bump stock, a .50 caliber machine gun or a tank. I’ll just have to forgo those as being a bit of overkill here in the burbs.
Yo!
Esau! Seriously? You'd trade a Right for the reelection of a politician who has called for an infringement on the Right?
Nothing like enthusiastically voting your way to tyranny, Devil take the hindmost!
Just because you don't want it, f*ck everyone else? Even if they don't have a neighbor for miles?
Our Constitution was crafted to protect the Rights of the few against the whim of the multitude.
A ban on bump stocks is meaningless. .
Maybe (except for the above principle being violated, until the first person gets arrested/incarcerated/shot over having one. Like a "high capacity" (standard issue) magazine, making it illegal, even a felony, to have a piece of equipment that is of itself incapable of discharging even a single shot is not only an ineffective way to prevent crime, but a great way to create an entire class of criminals who never did and never will do anyone any harm.
For some reason, there is a group of people who think that will somehow make them safer.
In the meantime, there are tens of millions of people here illegally, committing not just that crime, but a host of others, but those people will, on occasion, line up body-less heads on the border, and just aren't the folks to mess with if you want to be guaranteed to draw a pension.
So let's have another round of demonizing a gadget and peaceful gun owners and make a new class of criminals to make it look like LEOs are "doing something" rather than deal with the very real problems out there. Who cares, as long as it gets some jackasses reelected? And whatever you do, let's not mention the failures of the existing agencies and laws, and point (Shiny!) to a proposed "meaningless" law that diminishes our rights, whether you choose to exercise them or not.