{"id":111991,"date":"2025-09-03T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111991"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:13:04","slug":"111991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111991","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, he’s got several things wrong from the start. (pretty much standard for those with a Harvard education)\u00a0 The most egregious about the 2nd amendment. It ‘allows’, or ‘gives’\u00a0 nothing. <\/em>The people already had RKBA before the U.S. was the U.S. The whole of the Bill of Rights are restrictions on government powers <\/em><\/strong>as written by the very authors in its own preamble<\/p>\n

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Democrats need to drop calling for gun bans and ask these two questions<\/a><\/p>\n

Another day, another mass shooting \u2014 and yet another instance of our politicians failing to keep us safe from gun violence. We see pictures of mothers running barefoot to schools trying to get to their kids. We are told to give \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d for children who were shot while literally praying. We are told there needs to be bans on guns in a country where there are more privately-owned guns than there are people.<\/p>\n

As a liberal, I have lost complete faith that even the most caring Republican will do anything of value to stop gun violence in this country. The Republican (read gun lobby) position is that the more guns that are on the streets, the less safe it is, then we can bilk taxpayers for police budgets while getting people to buy more guns because it\u2019s less safe.<\/p>\n

We can see that in the \u201csolution\u201d that President Trump has for crime. But Trump\u2019s use of the National Guard and federal agents walking around major cities won\u2019t do anything to take guns off the street. That would not be profitable for the gun lobby.<\/p>\n

But also, as a liberal, I have watched Democrats do the same song and dance over \u201ccommon sense\u201d gun laws that seem to lack common sense and are about as likely as\u00a0Kanye West\u00a0<\/a><\/span>and\u00a0Taylor Swift\u00a0<\/a><\/span>recording a duet together. As a gun owner myself, I often scoff or shake my head in confusion over the fact that Democrats could easily get the upper hand on the gun control debate by dropping the insistence on gun bans.\u00a0They should instead be solely focused on gun trafficking and restrictions based on criminal convictions and mental health issues.<\/p>\n

When you go out to the general public and say you want to ban guns you are destined to not get any traction.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s put the whole Second Amendment aside for a moment. Owning a gun is a different experience in different parts of this massive country. I have lived in two Republican counties. When I lived in Waco, Texas you definitely needed a gun, especially when you went out into the boondocks. The police were far away and you could deal with anything from a criminal to a wild animal, so a gun would come in handy.<\/p>\n

I now live in Orange County, Calif., where I feel no need to have a gun when I leave the house. There just isn\u2019t a need (for me anyways).<\/p>\n

When you scream about gun bans, that message will not resonate at all in either place. I may feel safe in California, but others don\u2019t live in the nice community that I do. And going out into rural areas outside of Waco, you would be dumb not to have protection. Although people in both Texas and California want mass shootings to stop, we know that screaming for gun bans is a non-starter all over the country. And yet, Democrats will continue to scream for them.<\/p>\n

It is time for a different approach. Democrats need to ask just two questions in order to get the legislation needed to bring down gun deaths.<\/p>\n

First, does the Second Amendment give you the right to sell guns to a criminal?<\/p>\n

Second, should a person diagnosed with schizophrenia be allowed to purchase a gun?<\/p>\n

The Second Amendment clearly allows citizens the right to bear arms. Every single gun ban proposal runs face-first into that pesky part of the Bill of Rights, which is why many proposals to ban firearms fail.<\/p>\n

Democrats need to get rid of this pie-in-the-sky notion that one day the Second Amendment will be repealed, or that Americans will wake up and turn in hundreds of millions of firearms.\u00a0Instead of challenging gun ownership, they should challenge specific types of sales.<\/p>\n

This is not a revelation. There have been calls to end gun show loopholes and private sales for a while. However, thanks to Trump\u2019s insistence that federal law enforcement and National Guard get involved in local law enforcement, there is now an opportunity for Democrats as well.\u00a0The NRA\u2019s most hated federal entity is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Democratic governors should all invite ATF agents to come to their cities and insist that they go after gun traffickers, giving them a lot of latitude to do so.<\/p>\n