Reply #41: According to the 2nd amendment I have the right to own WMDs.

[HazMat]

The 2nd Amendment was enacted in a time when the state and the individual were on equal footing with regards to "arms". That is not true now. If we are to follow the 2nd amendment literally, regular citizens have the right to own ANY military weapon for the purpose of organizing a militia. The 2nd amendment is outmoded and does not apply to the present day. It should be scrapped, but it won't be anytime soon.

Gun control isn't only a state concern because the guns from one state are affecting people in another on a massive scale. NYC could pass all the gun control legislation possible and it wouldn't stop the gun flow from the rural states. Most of the guns on NYC streets come from South. Without a federal system in place to deal with the flow of guns between states, local laws mean nothing.