Honest debate? Anti gun nutters can't even be honest about the weapons they are talking about, much less the type of firearms protected by the second amendment.Actually, the reason we're talking about gun control is a score of first graders riddled with as many as seven bullets apiece.You people and your esoteric fight against "tyranny"! You have no idea what tyranny is!
Have any of you been told you cannot vote? Have any of you been told you cannot trade at certain stores? Have any of you ever been lynched? Have any of you ever been told where to sit at lunch counters? On buses? In movie houses?
Well, there was an entire class of American citizens who endured precisely that style of state sanctioned tyranny.
Did they resort to open insurrection? Did they arm themselves and fight the clear oppression they were living under?
No. They took to the streets and peacefully marched. They boycotted. The performed other acts of civil disobedience. And they won their rights under the protection of a well regulated militia; the National Guard.
But some of them were not satisfied with the speed of the government response to their demands. They advocated arming themselves. They advocated open armed insurrection. And that's when some folks got very very nervous.
The Black Panthers made people very nervous. And who got nervous the most? Why Conservatives! The very people who are advocating arming the population and being prepared for open armed insurrection. Ironic, ain't it?
Never heard of the Black Codes?
How about the Gun Control Act of 1968, than banned firearms that impoverished blacks could afford?
But I think you are exactly right.
The reason we are talking gun control today is the same reason the it was passed in 1968.
Why, when rifles only account for a miniscule 3% of all homicides...and so called assault rifles account for only a minute fraction of that percentage, is that the one firearm that the leftists are so terribly concerned over?
I think such a death toll and heartbreaking tragedy deserves an honest debate. And if it doesn't, I truly dread what level of tragedy would merit such a debate.
You are more than welcome for an honest debate, but first you must be honest with the weapons in question.