Too many guns. Too many excuses.

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This is an argument setting forth on the web in great volume.

AMENDMENT II

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

We do not have a well regulated militiaTop of Form.”

We do have a well-regulate militia...it is called the National Guard and they do not need citizens with assault rifles...or guns with twenty-plus round clips...When the 2nd Amendment was written we had no organized citizen soldiers like the Guard...but we do now, so we need to revise our unrestricted gun ownership laws to reflect the times in wihch we live now. Not in the 1700's. 

Guns are fine...let's license them like cars... like planes...like a million other things that have to be registered.

If every time a gun is sold or changes hands a title has to be drafted and logged in and registered, if there was a 28-day waiting period for background checks and metal stability checks, if we had a limit as to the amount of guns bought and sold in a year and the types (we do not need assault rifles… period nor do we need huge magazines for handguns…) the we can start to limit the amount of damage and carnage created like we saw in Sandy Hook. 

We will never stop all killing…but we can limit the amount by limiting the access to guns and bullets.  I recently wrote that if someone wants to perform sport shooting I am fine with that. No problems. Hunting, too. But that can be done simply enough with registered, insured, titled guns. In fact, sport shooters could join clubs and keep their firearms locked up safely at the club where only the member and the club pro could have access to them. Again, not denying the shooters their guns, but denying access to crazies trying to get guns.

These are the thoughts (starters only) we need to have in our nation about the control of guns.  Many have written me in support of what I have said and a few (very few) have written, pushing back.  I expect some push back. But every time I get push back I think of those 20 innocent faces of the children murdered in that school and think….enough.

I like to shoot guns. I’m quite good at skeet. I was trained well. And it is fun. Shooting is supposed to be fun. And safe. But driving is too and yet, we can title, license and insure automobiles and drivers…why not guns?

Back to original argument…We have a well-regulated militia in America now. Why do we need so many guns? The intent of the law has been fulfilled. The amount of the guns supported by the law is ridiculous.