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kleinbl00  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Another theater shooting. 3 dead 7 injured in Lafayette, Louisiana

Well, 4-5 years before what? I don't think we're Australia but I think the tide is turning towards "common-sense gun laws." What's "common sense?" There's gonna be a debate there. I mean, you can't own .50 cal or assault rifles in California. That's an infringement on the 2nd amendment. Illinois requires showing a specific ID. That's infringement. Hawaii requires registration. That's infringement. New York City requires a permit. Massachusetts is its own thing.

And that's how it starts. Local municipalities sick of the chaos do something that requires the NRA to strike it down, and the NRA doesn't. Before too long, you'll see something at the Supreme Court.

    "The people have a right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature, and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.”

- Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, Article 17





ecib  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess I had 4-5 years is ambitious to see any movement at the federal level. I def agree that any movement there will have to have to have some sort of broader lower level legislative support as a precursor.

j4d3  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would be interested in knowing what well-regulated militia all these shooters are joining.