Should assault rifles be banned in the US?

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The problem is that once you start modifying a law, even one that ingrained, it starts to become easier to modify it again, and again, until you modify it right out of existence, and nobody notices. Many will tell you that's unlikely, but you have to wonder sometimes.


That's what the anti-gun people claim. This is why the pro-gun people point the the second clause and say that it doesn't say "The Militia's right to keep and bear arms etc."


I'm not sure. I think that to work properly these days citizens would have to volunteer, and show up at a specified place and time with their own rifles to drill under State, not Federal, supervision, and agree to show up if called. That's just my idea of how it might work, and as I said I'm not sure.

For the most part, armed Militia's back then were calling an armed public to form up....It's clear they certainly had no intention on disarming the public as household guns have existed since our conception as a nation.