Let me just
inject myself into this:
1) What happens in
Switzerland or
England is fairly
irrelevant. Other countries have different
cultures and different
laws, and proposing that giving everyone in the US
automatic weapons would work because it works in Switzerland(and that is along with
compulsory military training) is
lunacy.
2) There needs to be some kind of large,
credible study done in the US, showing what happens when stricter
gun control measures are enacted. Both sides throw out the same old
statistics over and over, and they completely
contradict each other.
3) The
Constitution is not so sacred that it can't be changed. We've already changed it 17 times since the
Bill of Rights, and we can make that 18 if need be. I agree that most
gun control these days probably violates the
Second Amendment, but
pro-gun people must realize that the Constitution, by itself, is not an argument. You must set forth a
reasoned,
reasonable position, to convince the rest of us to let you keep your guns.
4) However, the fact that many Americans don't like the Second Amendment is not excuse for passing
unconstitutional laws. If there's something in the Constitution we don't think makes sense, we should pass an
Amendment. Just
ignoring the Constitution whenever it becomes convenient to do so is not acceptable.
5) A gun in the house of a
law-abiding citizen
can be a threat to people. We see tons of accidental gun deaths every year. However, I will not give up my freedom because of laws based on the idiocy of the
lowest common denominator in our
society. I don't think requiring
mandatory trigger locks is overly
oppressive. Beyond that, if your child kills himself or someone else with the
loaded gun you left sitting on the table, you should go to
jail.