if it were legal, do you support ownership of fully automated assault rifles such as AK 47, M16 or equivalent for personal ownership (also own any number of them) ? do you feel more safe and empowered with such advanced weapons? are you in favor of removing all background checks for gun ownership except for mental health check?
Iâm not a huge supporter of guns and until recently, for personal reasons I wonât get into, didnât own a gun. I do however support ownership of fully automatic weapons. Background checks I think are tricky. I donât support background checks at a federal level, its against our constitution and I donât believe that we should repeal or even change the 2nd amendment. I can support it at a state level though and I can even support at a federal level limiting the transfer of guns over state lines. As far as state levels of background checks, I believe that if there is a background check if any sort (mental health, previous felonyâs, etc) that all citizens of the state should be able to vote. If a state has the right to restrict gun ownership to a limited set of people, those people should also be able to vote them out of office. I say all that like itâs not tricky but in reality the 2nd amendment should protect citizens from their states restricting their rights.
Why do you assume all citizens of a state CANNOT vote? (Regarding your statement that they should be able to vote)
If you are a convicted felon your voting rights are taken off I heard
Right, this has been a big issue in Florida and is the same in many states including California (though to a lesser extent). https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/03/19/felon-vote-sparks-battle-for-florida-as-gop-moves-to-define-rights-921875
You can already own a machine gun, it needs to be pre-86, and you need a tax stamp, and you need to live in a state where itâs allowed. And yes I support ownership because itâs already legal, but yes I think modern machine guns should also be legal. Do I feel more safe with machine guns? No. Theyâre not particularly accurate and a waste of money and bullets. As far as background checks are concerned, I think the real problem is we donât have meaningful interactions any more with family, friends, and communities. I also think the media is 100% responsible for encouraging people who are already half crazy (The shooters manifestos are the same talking points you hear on cable TV). I also think we lack healthy gun culture, which should be taught as elective courses in schools and summer camps the same as we do for archery or woodworking.
But why stop at automatic guns? How about we also have tanks, RPGs and missiles etc.
Iâm not sure why people keep saying you canât have these things. They are legal to own, at least tanks, RPGs and armed aircraft. Armed aircraft are illegal to fly but you can own one. https://www.pewpewtactical.com/how-to-buy-tank/
No! I qualified as marksman on the M4A1 Carbine when I was in the military. These weapons are designed to KILL AS MANY HUMANS AS POSSIBLE in a short amount of time. Use for civilians should be severely limited.
Some aholes are carrying assault weapons and that too in Walmart and say itâs a social experiment to see if my second amendment is protected - these aholes donât know that they are actually aholes and if they expected nobody should panic , I wonder where we went wrong as a society https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/us/walmart-armed-man-missouri-second-amendment/index.html
I love fully âautomatedâ weapons. Like my own personal terminator.
Recall that our government derives its powers from the consent of the governed. That means if we give our government access to any particular weapon, then we, the people, must retain access to that same weapon. It's one of our checks and balances.
Require the current background checks but let people buy tanks if they wanted to, constitutional carry! An armed society is a polite society.
No. Everyone needs Jesus. đ