The world won't end if we enact better gun laws - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Not only is the Second Amendment not "totally under siege," it has a court of conservative protectors and a 2007 Supreme Court decision declaring that Americans have a constitutional right to possess firearms.
55% : Pursuant to the apparent Republican belief that accusations of communism intensify any argument about anything, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem told the NRA confab that the gun-safety push is "all about control" by Second Amendment enemies who "are schooled in the ways of Marx and Lenin."
51% : To listen to them is to enter a rhetorical twilight zone where any move to strengthen gun laws is not just a first step toward eliminating gun ownership in America, but in some tellings toward ending American democracy itself.
50% : Once they get the first step, they'll take the second step, the third, the fourth, and then you'll have a whole different look at the Second Amendment, which is, by the way, totally under siege."
50% : Although he has been relatively muted in the aftermath of last week's massacre at Robb Elementary School, in 2018 NRA chief Wayne LaPierre warned Conservative Political Action Conference attendees that "a tidal wave of European-style socialists" had "seized control of the Democratic Party," infesting it with "saboteurs" who don't believe in the Constitution, capitalism, American freedoms, or even "America as we know it." "Absolute control in every corner of our government is their ultimate dream," he charged, adding: "Their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment and our firearms freedoms so they can eliminate all individual freedoms."
44% : However, in District of Columbia v. Heller, majority opinion writer and conservative icon Antonin Scalia also noted that that right is not absolute and suggested there is room for regulation, writing: "[N]othing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms." Trump, of course, is hardly the only prominent Republican to have sounded that note.

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