>Your reply is far more interesting than your article... Can i just ask one question?
of course, or even 5 if you want.
>Do you think that there should be any restrictions at all on guns?
Guns are inanimate objects, thus restrictions on them are ineffective at best.
>For example, age limits, mental health checks, background checks.... any limits or controls at all?
none of those things have positive effects, why would I support them?
My friend's father, an immigrant, took the Boston T to Sears to buy a rifle by himself when he was 10 years old and no one worried about school shootings. What you need to consider is that none of those policies keep those who have ill intent from acquiring weapons, not at all. No one gets arrested when they fail a background check right?
> I feel like there has to be ground for reasonable people to meet half way on this issue... i'm not against people having guns, but i don't want my crazy ass neighbor who's on xanex and wine all day to have an arsenal in the shed. Maybe it's his "right," but at what point do you lose your rights?
There is your problem bro, you are too worried about what is in your neighbor's shed, that's none of your business. You want to take away his rights based on your feelings. I have an irrational fear of circus clowns, they scare me but does that mean I should try to restrict their rights? In America someone's rights end when they commit a crime, then we punish that person, you want to punish everyone including your innocent neighbor when they haven't done anything wrong.
>Or at what point is your right to bear arms limited?
when it harms another, like your right to free speech or any other basic right, when is your right to free speech limited?
>And I agree with you about the pharmaceutical industry. There should be marches against that. I'm not marching for either bcuz i'm a lazy piece of sh*t and i don't like big groups of people that get together to chant. It creeps me out. But the thing is, big Pharm is motivated by the same thing as the gun industry....it has nothing to do with rights, or health, or citizen safety....It's just profit. That's all...
So why do you think there are marches against one but not the other?
As reasonable people we should agree that so called "gun violence" is caused by things that "may cause suicidal thoughts or actions" and by the prohibition of drugs, which is the direct cause of most gun homicides, right?
So maybe the best policies to pursue would be to end the prohibition of drugs and improve mental healthcare right?
Why don't you have a march about the cops and FBI not doing their jobs?
Why should them failing to do their jobs result in more gun laws?