Massachusetts’ law prohibiting the possession and sale of some semiautomatic weapons commonly used in mass shootings is acceptable under a recent change to Second Amendment precedent from the US Supreme Court, a federal judge said Thursday.
A good deal of discussions centered around weapons technology, historical vs modern. A ban on assault weapons justified under the premise that they aren’t intended for self defense is understandable, but I didn’t see any mention of defining that.
Who has defined the characteristics of a weapon that’s used solely for self-defense, a weapon that’s used predominantly for hunting, and a weapon that’s used predominantly for warfare?
My views of weapon classification changed over time and after combat deployments. I feel like people’s viewpoints of this will vary widely based on their life experiences, and experiences personally firing weapons. Law makers will have difficulty coming to consensus on this.
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.
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?
A good deal of discussions centered around weapons technology, historical vs modern. A ban on assault weapons justified under the premise that they aren’t intended for self defense is understandable, but I didn’t see any mention of defining that.
Who has defined the characteristics of a weapon that’s used solely for self-defense, a weapon that’s used predominantly for hunting, and a weapon that’s used predominantly for warfare?
My views of weapon classification changed over time and after combat deployments. I feel like people’s viewpoints of this will vary widely based on their life experiences, and experiences personally firing weapons. Law makers will have difficulty coming to consensus on this.
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.
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?