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One acceptable limit to the 2nd Amendment is to enact and enforce very very harsh sentences for criminals that use a gun to commit a crime.

In my opinion, if someone uses a firearm to commit a felony (or types of felonies) there should be an automatic 10 year sentence that can not be plea bargained, and must be served consecutively to all other sentences.

The second amendment grants citizens a considerable amount of power. With that power comes responsibility, accountability, and consequence for using that power.

Another acceptable limit to the 2nd Amendment is that there needs to be some codification on who can legally own a gun. Almost all states have some limitations, but they are not uniform. Nor are the states always communicating with other states/federal government.

There is a delicate balance between medical privacy and public safety.

If I had some very contagious disease, where just by coughing/breathing on people I could cause many deaths, would my right to medical privacy trump the public safety concern? Probably not. Depending on the disease and the situation, the state has, and should have, the right to guarantee me to include involuntary confinement.

I believe the same schema should apply to types of mental illness and owning of firearms. We already had a thread where I outlined my wacky plan. But the bottom line is that IF there is medical evidence that a person may pose a danger to society if they have access to firearms, then it is the responsibility of the states to work together to prevent such individuals from legally obtaining firearms. The devil is, of course, in the details.

Another acceptable limitation to the 2nd Amendment concerns the right to "keep" firearms. There needs to be a legal responsibility to keep firearms securely. The intent is to prevent people not capable of owning firearms from obtaining someone else's firearms.

If a firearm owner chooses not to securely keep their firearm, then that owner should have to accept some level of responsibility if his or her firearms are obtained by someone else. What that level of responsibility is, I don't know.

Again, being able to "keep" firearms is a source of power and that power must be balanced with responsibility, accountability, and consequence.

The Second Amendment states that the government can not infringe on a citizens right to keep and bear arms. By the Incorporation Doctrine, this has also been applied to the state. But no where in the Constitution does it state that there is no responsibility, accountability, or consequence to keeping and bearing arms.