Debate about Gun Control

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-25-2016, 02:56 PM)Anthony Wrote: I'm surprised that there has not been a movement to constitutionally amend the Second Amendment to delete the reference to "A well regulated militia" etc., leaving only "The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed."

Adding all or most of the Democrats who have a "non-aggression pact" with the NRA to every Republican in the House, it should pass that body with the required two-thirds majority; and then, adding six blue states with large white urban/suburban populations - the Charles Bronson/Bernie Goetz voters - plus paradoxically pro-gun Vermont to the 31 states that George W. Bush won over John Kerry in 2004, and the revision becomes law.

That's a one way street.  The right to self defense crowd loses all pretense of the Jim Crow interpretation, which some of them still cling to.

A two way version would make the right to own and carry for self defense very firm, but explicitly grant governments power to limit a few basics like rate of fire and magazine size.

The current mood is not one of reasonable compromise, though.  It would be nice to grant both sides most of what they want, but too much of what they want is mutually exclusive.  Just proposing a reasonable compromise would alienate voters, one flavor of voters in rural areas, and another flavor in urban.  It's too hot a potato for a politician with long term plans to consider.