It seems the Left has basically adopted, as their position, that the 2nd amendment does not guarantee an individual's right to bear arms.
This is why the Left keeps failing. First, it is an intellectually flawed position. Second, why should gun advocates compromise with that?
Basically, if you want compromise (and I do!), you have to start with two basic tenets:
1. The 2nd amendment does guarantee an individual's right to bear arms.
2. The 2nd amendment (as Scalia noted in Heller) does not mean you cannot have reasonable regulation.
The Left is rejecting #1, and then blaming everyone for the failure to get solutions.
There are many on the Right that reject #2, but they are a MINORITY of Republicans.
If you want to make progress, the first thing you need to do is admit that #2A is an individual right. Until you do that, its impossible to start any real discussion about how much we want to limit...well, #2A.
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Klein: "...@nicholas_bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan. In “The Procedure Fetish,” Bagley argues that liberal governance has developed a puzzling preference for legitimating government action through processes rather than outcomes..."
“Legitimacy is not solely — not even primarily — a product of procedures that agencies follow...Legitimacy arises more generally from the perception that government is capable, informed, prompt, responsive, and fair.”
I'm fine with this proposal from Nathaniel Glasser and @haroldpollack.
But as a society, we need to decide what age people have full constitutional rights. If that age needs to be raised, I am all ears. But you shouldn't get to pick and choose. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
As for guns, I almost universally agree with their arguments here, actually. I don't think 18 year olds are mature enough to be handling guns without supervision.
Of course, I am an old fart, and I am not even sure 18 year olds should be driving, drinking, smoking etc...
Most murders are commited by those 18-24 (About 34%), while 25-35 is 28.4%.
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What are the options? I think we start with 3 main options:
1. Marginal Gun Control 2. Absolutist Gun Control; Repeal #2A 3. Gun Expansion 4. Status Quo
The Marginal/Minimalist plan would limit the type of guns available.
The absolutist would be making guns illegal and confiscation.
Gun expansion would allow more freely carry gun laws.
#1 is the majority position among the Democrat Party. Unfortunately, its been tried before (Brady bill), and didn't really work all that well. Several studies have shown that it didn't reduce homicides at all (it did help reduce suicides).
The right to bear arms started in England, and predates the Constitution. Many colonies guaranteed the right early on. Thomas Jefferson wrote in his first draft of the VA constitution that “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
I mean, we can argue about what the extent of the 2nd amendment is (no right is absolute, obviously, as Scalia himself noted) but the individual right to bear arms was rarely, if ever, challenged for more than a century or more after our independence.