Randy Alcorn: Tell the Gun-Huggers That Guns ARE a Public Safety Issue

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Burger maintained that the full language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument conferring unfettered gun rights on individual citizens.
67% : Because it would take three-quarters of the states to ratify repeal of the Second Amendment, or for the court to reverse all of its precedents affirming citizens' gun rights, and then somehow override the Ninth and 10th amendments in order to totally prohibit gun ownership nationwide.
62% : After all, if the court can reverse abortion rights, why can't it reverse gun rights?
60% : Nevertheless, even as the lethal danger of unfettered gun rights has become glaringly apparent, the gun-huggers stubbornly cling to their defensive arguments with the same obstinate tenacity as they do with their guns -- which can only be taken from their cold dead hands, because of their cold dead brains and cold dead hearts.
60% : This argument has to assume that the Second Amendment would be repealed or that the Supreme Court would reverse precedents affirming individuals' gun rights.
59% : Rather than have Americans strapping on guns every morning, ready to shoot it out with the bad guys, or making America a sea-to-shining-sea armed fortress with Transportation Security Administration-like security at every public venue, wouldn't it be more practical and safer to have reasonable restrictions on gun rights?
55% : All their arguments are dependent upon an abbreviated interpretation of the Second Amendment that wholly ignores the introductory clause qualifying firearm possession by citizens to a "well regulated Militia."
54% : It is well past time for America to grow up about gun rights and admit that current conditions are untenable, and that while gun violence can never be entirely eradicated -- given the estimated 393 million firearms out there -- there are various reasonable restrictions that can begin to significantly mitigate gun violence, starting with reinstituting the ban an assault rifles.
50% : In 2008, Burger notwithstanding, the Supreme Court held in a 5-4 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to possess firearms unrelated to service in a well-regulated state militia.
43% : The late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, an appointee of President Richard Nixon, vehemently disagreed with the abbreviated interpretation of the Second Amendment, calling it a great fraud on the American people perpetrated by the gun lobby.
43% : Because we remain stuck with a duopoly, it doesn't take much more than believing your own eyes to know which of the two major political parties is furiously digging away at the foundations of our democratic-republic -- as well as obstructing gun control.

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