• PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    It was never about self defense. It’s about people wanting to own cool guns and trying to justify owning them. It’s also about gun manufacturers wanting to sell expensive guns to guys with more money than sense.

    Self defense isn’t the issue. The 2nd amendment does not give you an absolute right to own any gun you want to. Guns are already restricted by type. An AWB doesn’t completely restrict your ability to keep and bear arms and therefore doesn’t infringe on the 2nd amendment as you still have access to reasonable alternatives.

    • MSgtRedFox@infosec.pub
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      11 months ago

      Aside from wanting to own cool guns, does that push the argument against assault weapons back to the insurrection camp?

      There’s the group of people who believe that part of the motivation behind the allowance of militia arms was to allow the possibility of armed revolution since that took place and allowed the Merica we have.

      Regardless of original intent, if only handguns were legal in America, would that eliminate the cause/need to seek modifying the 2nd amendment or achieve the safety goals you want or you think society wants?