@Right_in_Virginia
Seems to me like YOU are the one surrendering.
MY philosophy on gun control is that any citizen not on parole or other restriction should be able to walk into any gun shop in the country and buy any firearm he wants as long as it isn't a crew-served weapon. The 2nd Amendment covers individual weapons as carried by the typical soldier,and individual soldiers don't carry crew-served weapons. By definition they need a crew.
BTW,before we get into that argument,the 2nd Amendment doesn't cover things like grenades,either. Grenades and similar devices are classified as "weapons of mass destruction" because they are nothing less than tiny bombs.
Come on
@sneakypete you must know me well enough by now to know I do not surrender. It's just not in me.
And, please, don't bring in grenades and kitchen knives. We're talking about guns --- not idiotic straw men arguments.
I am actually fighting for what you're fighting for ... preservation of American gun rights. But I think current events, and by current I mean the last 15 years, demand a different kind of fight, a fight with a different focus. We MUST acknowledge the pain the carnage has caused our fellow citizens. Dead innocents cannot be whisked aside and replaced with a 200 year old document. Not anymore; there has been too much bloodshed.
Red flag laws reinforce the simple truth that the mentally ill murder. Our support for such laws also tells our fellow citizens that we are not cold-hearted bastards who don't care how many children they bury. We do care and want to help identify and treat those who exhibit the signs of mental illness that put all of us at risk --- even if this reduces the number of rampages by only one.
We will fight to do this with Constitutional due diligence and court oversight, but we will do this.
But this should be just the beginning.
We should then move to addressing the failures and stigmas in mental health treatment, the isolation among our youth -- the lack of family and community connection, the violence and diminishment of the value of life flowing to our young through video games, music, movies and television. We should begin a campaign to reinforce that human life is a profound gift and its protection and enhancement is the first and most essential responsibility of all within a civilized society.
And you know what would happen if we did all of this? We'd no longer be talking about guns -- at all; but we'd be preventing the carnage they have been used for.