• naught@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It is one of the only nations in the world - and the only one in Europe - that provides the constitutional right to bear arms.

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        Switzerland also has heavily regulated ammunition. You can’t just go to the store and buy some bullets, like in Czechia

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              If you follow the constitution, the right to bear arms is for a well regulated militia. Not for a stressed 18 year old buying an AR-15 at Walmart to shoot up rioters from another state.

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                Yes totally forgot about that the people part…go read some federalist papers and a few history books the 2nd is for the people not the militia.

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                You might not like where that logic goes. The Supreme Court took a stance in United States v. Miller (1939) that the NFA’s provisions on short barreled shotguns could be enforced on the basis that it’s not a weapon that would be used by a well-regulated militia.

                That brings us to a conclusion that literally nobody likes. The government could ban shorty shotguns and .22 rimfire, because those aren’t militia weapons. It could not ban fully automatic weapons or even rocket launchers.

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                  We have to come up with something. I am a gun owner. There are legitimate uses for them. But a rifle marksman course requirement? Gun safety classes? 30 day waiting period? Mental health screening? Accountability if you buy it for someone else who uses it to commit violence? Anything?

                  Something has to stop the senseless violence.

                  I know that it won’t stop it.

                  People in Brittain use knives… Acid in the middle east.

                  The difference there is that the harm is limited to a few people and not these mass casualty events.

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              I wish they’d bring back the draft. Draft men and women over the age of 18 for like two years; it doesn’t need to be for combat roles either. You get job training, you learn self-discipline, how to work in a team, really a lot of life skills. And then when your enlistment is up, you get training on how to find a job, how to write a resume, how to pass an interview, you get to use the GI bill and (in my hypothetical scenario) would keep Tricare. And more people would care about where and when we deploy our military, because they actually have a stake in it now.

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              The only way someone should be allowed to own a gun is after rigorous training, like in the military.

              Only then do you have “good guy with a gun”

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            Mandatory conscription is probably my most “out there” political belief. I think the benefits would be vast! I don’t think it would prevent mass shootings in America, though.