Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: In your opinion, what is the Second Amendment? n/t [View all]Warpy
(111,437 posts)left over from the day the colonists tried to self govern under the Articles of Confederation and thought that local militias would repel any foreign invasion just as they'd managed to defeat the British, not realizing that without professional soldiers leading the whole thing, they'd still be singing "God Save the King."
It should have been scrapped when it became clear that at least a small standing professional army was necessary to defend the new Republic, that badly trained farmers were not up to doing the job had one of the imperial powers in Europe decided to start picking off some of the richer former colonies.
Gun laws are best decided locally. What works in a big east coast city is not going to work out here in bear and cougar country, and vice versa.
Having every lunatic, curious child, and felon able to access guns is not working. Period.