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Originally Posted by Trish Crocker
From what I have heard, unless you are a 'hothead' the average person will hesitate before pulling a trigger, even if they feel threatened. It is during this moment of hesitation that the assailant gets the upper hand. The common statement that criminals will find a way to get a weapon may be true, but a scarcity of weapons would drive up the price, therefore not every nut would be able to afford one. I'm not sure I can accept the idea that some form of gun control is contrary to the Constitution. I don't think the founding fathers were talking about assault weapons and arsenals. At the time the constitution was written, there were no phones to call for help when you found someone lurking around your property, many people live miles from any town or city and needed protection. In this case, the only viable solution would be to arm yourselves. It seems to me that the same constitution that allows this 'freedom' is the constitution that denied women the right to vote and was then changed when people realized the stupidity of the this law. We have the right to seek change when it is causing harm to United States Citizens.
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...that would very carefully define what kinds of weapons should be banned from the United States except for in the hands of serving military and those weapons should be kept on base and locked under guards and other security measures.
I did a paper for a Legal History Class at the University of Minnesota Law School (Class of 1989) of the various Minnesota appellate decisions on the Prohibition laws against liquor and every case I looked at involved a lawyer pushing another hole through the Minnesota and US Prohibition laws. It was very hard for the lawmakers to write any law that forbad liquor that some lawyer in Minnesota could not find a loophole to allow his or her client to get off of the fine and/or jail sentence. The law makers kept on revising the law while the lawyers kept on finding a new technicality to work to absolve their clients.
It is going to take some very astute lawyers to write some kind of Constituitional Amendment at the Federal and State levels to ban certain types of weapons.
I also expect that there is going to be a lot of political machinations to get any kind of meaningful ban in place.