A Gun Control Idea I Could Get Behind

[musick]

Gun owners calling for more restrictions is part of the reason CA is a lost cause.

[SonofWWIIDI]

Umm, yeah...no. Just step away from the keyboard for awhile. Forget you ever had this idea.

JMHO

[pythonfan]

Umm, yeah...no. Just step away from the keyboard for awhile. Forget you ever had this idea.

JMHO

Directed at OP or me or both?

[toiletfighter]

LoL

[floogy]

No. I will never get behind any kind of gun control. The gun control we currently have is beyond infringement.

So again, because one idiot goes to a protest and shoots his buddies, I can't bear arms as laid out in the 2nd Amendment? Not that I can in CA anyway, since we can't bear arms here regardless of whether we're at a protest or not.

Armed protest and insurrection is quite literally the EXACT intent of the 2A. What else would it be for? Oh right, dove hunting and target shooting. That's what the framers REALLY meant.

I hope you're just day drinking and trolling us. That would be so much better than being sincere about such a blatantly anti 2A post.

[MyOdessa]

Rival militias gathered in Louisville this weekend:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8559841/Black-militia-members-brandish-guns-demanding-charges-against-cops-linked-Breonna-Taylors-death.html

Not the first time this has happened. In this case, one of the NFAC members had a "negligent discharge" and wounded three of his own side. It is easy to see how this situation could quickly escalate into a full-on blood bath if he had hit the opposing side.

So, at the risk of enraging the Second Amendment Absolutists among us, here is an idea for gun control I could get behind: "no armed protests." I haven't drafted the bill yet so feel free to snipe around the edges, but to me it makes no sense to allow organized, heavily armed militias to parade in public. When there are opposing militias, like in this Louisville case, the potential for a full-on battle is obvious. If these protest keep happening, it is only a matter of time.

What do you guys think? Anyone else able to get behind this kind of gun control?

The whole idea of the Second Amendment is armed protest against the government.
Unless you think that the Second Amendment is all about hunting and collecting with government permission. In that case, you live in the right state for it.

[Bansh88]

"armed protests" is why the 2nd amendment was written.

By the way, there were probably like 20 murders of black people by black people while that protest went on. Will they be doing anything (caring) about that?

[The War Wagon]

A Gun Control Idea I Could Get Behind

Just let the stupid people shoot each other, and don't BECOME one along the way.

[Gat Man]

What do you guys think? Anyone else able to get behind this kind of gun control?

[flyingrat]

[Lucky Scott]

No No No

If you don't want to go to a protest armed, then don't go. Why pass laws against me, a law abiding gun owner. You sound like a typical liberal........ "If we save just one life" or "I don't like it so everybody else has to change the way they live because thats how I feel"

Personally, I think they should pass a law in California to allow us to open carry during riots. Lots of folks want to defend their property against burning and looting thugs but know they can't do it without getting in trouble.

[blkoutdb]

[B2D]

The Second Amendment, among many other causes, exists to protect the First.

Hard NO.

[SandHill]

LOL. WHile I expected some push back on this forum, I have to say I was not expecting such intensity.

I think most of you are missing the point, perhaps intentionally. I am not particularly concerned about the NFAC members who got shot. If you choose to line up with comrades whose training and proficiency you are not sure of, I am fine with the assumption of the risk argument.

The point is, this is not the first time we have seen opposing militias at protests, and it won't be the last. Pit a few hundred rabid believers with AR's and plenty of ammo on one side side against a few hundred equally rabid believers with radically different beliefs on the other side, also with AR's and plenty of ammo, and it is just a matter of time until you have an all-out battle that will make the riots to date look tame. What do you think would have happened if, instead of hitting three of his brothers-in-arms, the NFAC guy had hit three Three Percenters instead? Do you think someone would have returned fire? And if that happened, do you think the NFAC would have retired from the field , saying, "oops, our bad, sorry, that was misunderstood?"

We have seen the reaction when lone wolf lunatics open up with an AR. These militias have the potential to touch off something on an altogether different scale. If it does, watch what happens to your Second Amendment rights then.

[Jess B. Guy]

Stay armed, stay loaded, stay vigilant, stay safe!

Stay polite.