Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Want a gun? Take a bullet: [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)Changing the Constitution is hard by design, and requires far more than a mere majority. Also, unlike gay marriage and abortion, repealing the Amendment would actually be an attempt to remove or restrict a right, rather than expand rights. The only other remotely comparable situation was prohibition, and that was a complete and total failure.
More importantly, repeal of the Second Amendment would only allow certain gun restrictions, not mandate anything, nor reduce firearm violence. The failure of various recent gun control initiatives currently has absolutely nothing to do with Second Amendment problems. Many of the more moderate proposals would quite likely pass constitutional muster. However, they simply cannot garner sufficient electoral and popular support to pass Congress or most of the states. The People are your problem, not the Consitution.
Similarly, despite your claims, support for gun rights and against restrictions is increasing, all while crime rates are demonstrably dropping and gun laws liberalizing in much of the country. You simply fail to realize how firearms, for good or ill, are part of the historic and cultural fabric of our country.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/oct/02/mass-shootings-have-no-impact-on-support-for-gun-rights-in-the-us
http://www.gallup.com/poll/179213/six-americans-say-guns-homes-safer.aspx
http://www.gallup.com/poll/179045/less-half-americans-support-stricter-gun-laws.aspx
http://www.people-press.org/2014/12/10/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights/
Your contention that,
is simply ludicrous. The demographics of people statistically likely to be killed or injured by firearms are young, mostly urban, and poor men for a variety of unpleasant social reasons, and firearms are merely a tool used in commission of all forms of violence. This likely explains why are suicide rates are comparable to most other developed countries, and dramatically lower than gun control havens like Japan and South Korea. We have a cultural violence problem, not a gun problem.
Far more importantly, your cavalier disregard for anyone unlike yourself, including many millions of people, including other women, vulnerable minorities, the elderly and disabled, etc., is not only shocking and decidedly illiberal, but is duly noted and really helps explain the innumerable gun control legislative and policy failures.
Lastly, we've already had the discussion over the issues concerning the various firearm studies and research (recall that I used to work for the National Institute of Justice). Feel free to cherry pick you data and find reasons to ignore everything else that doesn't conform to your views. Don't be surprised when other people acknowledge this other scholarship, and act accordingly, usually by supporting gun rights.
For you amusement, the following is a video on how you'll need to go about removing the right to own guns and removing them.