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Yeah, every person with an interest in the Second Amendment thinks “but wait, we can work this out if only... blah blah blah.”
Here is the thing. No matter what you do, whether you ban semi-autos entirely, license all gun owners, whatever. The very next day, a professional organization with great media access is going to demand more gun laws.
Laws that start out with a “Sure, this opens up a potential avenue for trenendous legal abuse” WILL be abused; and not in the distant future either. I mean, look at the Founders... they engineered a competing system of checks and balances and basic individual rights that made ot extremely difficult to concentrate and abuse power; but we’ve managed to do it despite their best efforts.
Let’s all get licensed and hope it doesn’t bite us in the butt later is at best a delaying strategy until you can win the culture war. If you don’t have a surefire strategy to win that war, you are signing your own death warrant - and if by some chance you are winning that war, you just gave the enemy space to breathe.
I mean, it is an attractive idea if you are trying to work out a compromise between two reasonable people. In politics though, an unreasonable person WILL have that power one day. Hoping that happens after you are dead isn’t much of a solution.
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