Your gun laws are a mistake: National Rifle Association to Australia

[Elok]

Annoyingly, the second amendment will keep our country flooded with guns for at least another generation (new amendments are very hard to pass). I'd be fine with private gun ownership as a privilege, like driving--it's a very effective way to keep the deer population down. As an absolute right, it's rather silly.

[Alexander's Horse]

When I say annoying, a friend gave my sons a shoot with his 303. I went to buy some ammo to pay him back, it's not cheap, about a dollar a round. I couldn't even buy rounds without a license

[Proteus_MST]

Annoyingly, the second amendment will keep our country flooded with guns for at least another generation (new amendments are very hard to pass). I'd be fine with private gun ownership as a privilege, like driving--it's a very effective way to keep the deer population down. As an absolute right, it's rather silly.

I agree.
It is disturbing that there are people in america who are not bright enough to even pass basic education ... but hey, at least they have the right to own guns (and, in some states, even openly carry them ... even into security sensitive regions like airport terminals)
As disturbing as seeing kids who are allowed by the shooting range at ages like 4 years ... and extra cute guns being marketed especially for kids ... like the pink rifle in the pic below

Spoiler:

[DaShi]

Apparently people like slowwie, reg collider, dinodoc etc think it's OK for innocent children, blacks in churches etc to be massacred by guns...

It's a small price to pay for freedom. But seriously, if the shear number of tragic gun massacres that occur in America won't get anything done, I don't know what will.

[Ming]

The problem with gun control at this point is that it's really too late. There are already too many damn guns in the country.
I don't see the government ever being given the power to invade people's homes and confiscating any guns they find.
Yeah, we should stop the selling of automatic weapons and cop killer ammo... Make it more difficult for morons to buy guns...
But frankly, there is really not much the government can do at this point. It's a real problem that won't be going away, no matter how many speeches windbag politicians make.
The culture will have to change... and it doesn't seem to be happening with enough people. Too many idiots think it's their god given right to own an automatic weapon...

[DaShi]

I know, we can't even make the small steps. Even the private selling of smart guns was met with death threats from gun fanatics.

[giblets]

Time to invade Australia and bring gun freedoms to the oppressed population. They don't have any guns so it should be easy.

[Elok]

The culture will have to change... and it doesn't seem to be happening with enough people. Too many idiots think it's their god given right to own an automatic weapon...

This is the crux of it: we have a bizarre culture of firearm-entitlement backed up by improbable notions of home invasions and rebel militias resisting the sudden collapse of democracy. The problem here is that much of our god-given right idea comes from the 2nd, and in order to get rid of the 2nd, we'd basically have to get rid of the GGR-idea to generate popular support for axing it. Until then, our slave-whipping, woman-disenfranchising founding fathers ordained this critter two-hundred-plus years ago, so their judgment must still be infallible. Catch-22.

[loinburger]

The Supreme Court could always step in when somebody challenges a gun control law and say that you can only own guns if you're in a militia, which would then limit (legal) firearm ownership to the country's craziest citizens.

[pchang]

We would need a state to set up an official militia first.

[Proteus_MST]

Isn´t the US National Guard some kind of militia-equivalent?

[pchang]

National -> run by US Army. So, yes and no. A State run militia would eliminate that 2nd Amendment loophole.

[Alexander's Horse]

Time to invade Australia and bring gun freedoms to the oppressed population. They don't have any guns so it should be easy.

Nah we just hid them

[rah]

Americans are the only ones ready for the Zombie Apocalypse.

[BlackCat]

True, though a minor problem - all american zombies wll be heavily armed