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In reply to the discussion: Stop Lying to yourself About Being That “Good Guy With A Gun” by STEVE MARMEL [View all]CTyankee
(63,771 posts)extremists have taken it even further. If the 2nd A was "already understood" so generally, as you assert, why the polls showing 90% support for UBC? What was already understood, IMO, was that of a right for states to organize militias, a collective right. It took an extreme right wing faction of the Republican Party on the SC to interpret it an individual right. There's that pesky qualifying clause in front of the amendment.
Even so, I don't think more people ran out and bought guns. From what I've read, a dwindling number of people are simply buying more guns, ramped up by hysteria that Obama was for "gun confiscation."
As to your observation about the TX law, I see this kind of protest all the time from DU gun enthusiasts: "I would support such and such regulation but..." Shudda, coulda, woulda. Yet I don't see much action on their part to fight for it. I have been waiting to see if a new group of sane gun owners is formed at state levels to advocate for sane gun safety laws. Talk is cheap. Let me see some real action from sane gun owners and I'll believe you mean it. But right now, it sounds like you "doth protest too much," when you may well have genuine concerns. But it comes across, quite frankly, as feeble and/or insincere. I am not trying to insult you personally, just a word to the wise about how it is sounding. As the saying goes, "If you are not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."