DISQUS

tomsorensen · 4 months ago

I do support this amendment.

Cordelia · 4 months ago

This is awful, we need to be putting in stricter gun laws to prevent handgun violence, not encourage it!

colin317 · 4 months ago

Your reasoning is flawed. Stricter gun control laws only help criminals. Criminals who plan on murdering someone by use of a firearm of some kind probably aren't too worried whether or not they can legally use the gun in question, and will go places other than legal gun shops to get it if they are determined enough. Meanwhile, law abiding citizens who should have means to help defend themselves against such individuals, will have a harder time carrying firearms if they hope to stay law abiding. Violence doesn't go down if you make gun laws stricter, it goes up because it takes gun power away from people who are more likely to use it for the correct reasons, and places it into the hands of people who don't respect such laws.

jameseagleman · 1 month ago

i feel that thumb print and bar coded identification cards are need in order to determine who is law abiding from criminal, i feel this measure would "weed out" individuals who have a history or a record of violence to include those who have served within the penal system in order to prevent weapons such as "guns" into the wrong hands...i am a a abiding citizen and would endorse reporting my weapons to the state on a bi-monthly basis...it does fall within the second amendment and for those law abiding citizens..the (law abiding citizen) i feel would have no problem doing the same...lets stop guns from falling into the wrong hands and help the second amendment work for us...what do we "law abiding citizens" have to hide? if you were (at one time in the wrong) with a gun...why should you be hiding your past? after all...it's your right isn't it??

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DanielMN · 1 month ago

reply to jameseagleman: so you feel we should have identification cards to identify who is criminal and who is not? And you suppose criminals would walk around with these cards, just like they will not bring a weapon into a business or school because a sign says they are banned? Being required to report the guns you have on a bi-monthly bases is in the spirit of the second amendment? What country are you from originally? All schemes to keep exact tabs on who-has-what-guns-where have historically been used to ban and collect them. For obvious reasons (to sensible people) criminals do not bother to register their guns. Early on in the NAZI consolidation of power over Germany they used lists of gun owners- everyone was required to register as you suggest- to round up guns from the populace, ensuring no one could act effectively against them. Canadian, English, and Australian anti-gun nuts more recently swore up and down registration lists would not be used to ban guns- oops, did not turn out to be quite true... If you think the second amendment (and the innate right to self defense) is an anachronism, and that laws "protect" you without a real freedom to defend yourself check today's St. Paul. MN paper (October 03, 2009) a women who was killed by her abusive husband. She had gone to the police, had a restraining order from the courts, but sadly did not take real action to defend HERSELF, like buy a handgun and / or hide. She is dead.