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If HN members are so smart, why don't they admit that taking laws written 200 years ago as gospel is fundamentally broken?

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Yeah, largely agreed.

But also, what part of any of this shit looks like a well regulated militia? Take all the guns, including the police's, & lock them up.

The logistics aren't practical (that is, confiscating the nation's guns). I don't know much on this, but I take Beau's word on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaWQd4njB0&ab_channel=Beauo...

The Supreme Court decided that "well regulated militia" doesn't mean anything, so they just ignore that part. They dub it the "prefatory clause" -- kinda like a comment, which might be some kind of hint but doesn't affect how the code actually runs.

So it goes, so it goes.

I mean Canada has plenty of guns (including lots of illegal handguns from the US) and doesn’t have these shootings.

So I’d argue availability isn’t the core problem.

Cultural. It’s cultural.

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