Discussion for article #241944
We have courts deciding whether the Constitution permits 7-round or 8-round or 10-round magazines. Absurd.
The Second Amendment has been misinterpreted completely. It was passed to make sure that states could have popular militias. It had nothing to do with individual ownership of guns, apart from militia service.
And it was passed when the only multi-shot weapons were double-barreled.
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Have you ever noticed that for guys who always scream about “the voice of the people” they sure want to go to the courts a lot?
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Are you kidding, the legislators passed it so that if a group of individuals didn’t like what they were doing, they could get their guns, ride up to the national capital (was it DC then or NYC or Philly? Well wherever it was), and shoot all the elected officials and then run the country the way they saw fit.
I agree. Unfortunately, the Constitution that counts is the one that today’s judges interpret. Until we change the politicians who appoint them, we are stuck with the legal precedents that these judges set.
Besides we are talking around the edges of the problem. What a given state does to restrict guns will only provide get rich quick opportunities for traffickers who transport high magazine firearms from states like Virginia and Indiana to urban areas.
A systemic problem requires a systemic approach. We have a Federal Highway Traffic Agency to reduce vehicular fatalities nationally. We need the same kind of agency to address gun violence/deaths at the national level.