US national policy issues looming after healthcare?

We the people have to alter the 2nd amendment if we want to have fundamental gun control. There is no other viable path. The method for changing the constitution is well-established. It will take a super majority of Americans to pull it off.

Are we ready? I can tell you this, emotionally piling on Jody may be satisfying in the short term, but you alienate other gun owners when you do so. But hey, don't listen to me, I don't know sh#t. I'm just another American.

Norton

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The Wastelands

Feb 19, 2018 - 12:38pm PT
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/

As far as how to define an assault rifle ban: One thing that should be done is to get rid of both high capacity guns and removable magazines. If you had to hand load 3 or 4 bullets into a gun at a time, it would cut back on the ability of mass shootings while still allowing rifles for hunting. (Hey, if you are that bad of a shot, pick another sport). For home defense, people should use shotguns.

In fact, there have been four mass shootings this year. Or, if you count using the federal government’s current criteria—three or more victims killed in an indiscriminate public rampage—there have been six mass shootings this year.

Norton

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The Wastelands

Feb 19, 2018 - 05:15pm PT
grow up Edward,

If we want shorter term significant steps to protect our children then I think it may be time to spend the money to secure our public school campuses, with fences, metal detectors and armed police presence.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported in January that the city spent $826,354 on security, including about $227,500 in overtime and the balance in wages and supplies. The department was not providing security for the walls but patrolling and securing the area near the build — city streets in an Otay Mesa business park

Well Harvey Lee Oswald didn't own an AR-15 did he?

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
 Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
 Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
 Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824