Can you be a Progressive Democrat and still the support the Second Amendment?

[Berlin Vet]

97. Reason For This Post

The reason why I posted this was to solicit ideas, thoughts, and opinions of DU’s about the Second Amendment and gun control. I recently became a Democratic Precinct Committee Officer (PCO) and volunteered to work in the Agricultural and Rural Caucus (ARC). The Chairman of the ARC then tasked us to come up with issues that affect people in rural areas that Democratic candidates could use to help them get elected. My county is so red that Republicans run unopposed and we want to change that. Having a well thought out position on the Second Amendment would help them challenge these Republicans in addition to wanting to help working class Americans and not Corporations.

After the Sandy Hook massacre and the lack of a response to it at the Federal level, I realized that gun control would be solved state by state and it has. Here in Washington State bills were recently drafted to ban magazines over 10 rounds and “assault weapons” will be harder to get and would require an “extensive” background check and a yearly license. This probably won’t pass due to Republican control of the State Senate but it may come back as an initiative. But the Republicans will spin this as “The Democratic city people want to confiscate everyone’s guns because they are evil and people that own them are mentally ill”.

Like it or not the Second Amendment will not be repealed in my life time (I’m 58) but there is a chance that it may go the other way. How? If Trump is able to put in a couple more Supreme Court Justices, could the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the National Firearms Act of 1934 be ruled unconstitutional? I don’t think this will happen but it is possible and scary to think about.

Again I would like to thank those that provided some great input and links.