Just because we have a right to bear arms does not make that right absolute. Take free speech for example: there are real world legal limitations on speech. It is not an absolute right. Or, better yet, even something as fundamental as the right to self-defense is not absolute.
The same is true of the right to bear arms. It is not absolute. Arms can and should be better regulated.
Also, I am a gun owner.
My friend Mike LaHood would be alive today if handguns were banned like they are in most advanced nations.
That is all.
I’d give up my guns in a New York minute, if in return I could live in a place where regular folks and regular cops just don’t have them.
I would much rather enjoy the privilege of not worrying about it, than the right to have a gun and the obligation to worry about gun crime.
It’s illegal for anyone except cops to have a gun in Mexico….
Yep, but that Mexico has tight gun laws and runaway gun crime doesn’t prove a thing about what would happen in the U.S. Unfortunately, Mexico has a porous border to its North with the world’s largest producer and stockpiler of firearms and doesn’t have the resources to run the kind of port checks that would prevent the illegal importation of firearms in bulk from overseas either, whereas the US already does exactly that.
In fact it would seem, prima facie, that severely restricting gun sales and use in the U.S. would eventually have a knock-on effect of saving Mexican lives too.