Reply #87: false arguments

[sandnsea]

First of all, polls show time and time again that the vast majority of people DO support gun regulation laws. No matter how many times you stick that fact in the face of the gun groupies, they just toss it aside and repeat the lie that people don't want gun laws.

Second, we enact safety laws that whole groups of people have to obey because of what some might do all the time. I have to take a driving test because some other nut might drive without really knowing how. Freedom to travel used to be a right, by the way. The very fact that we have public roads and waterways is based on the freedom to travel. Nobody ever suggested it was a privilege to own a horse and ride it. Cars created unique safety hazards and we responded.

I really do not understand the obsession some people have with guns. That is really the root of it and it has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment or anything else. People didn't have this obsession back in the 50's and 60's, people expected gun regulation. Hunter safety programs were implemented to keep people alive, nobody thought for a second it was a violation of civil rights.

Again, just because Republicans scream 2nd Amendment doesn't mean they're going to die for the Constitution. Anybody who believes that has been duped by the noise machine, plain and simple.