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Originally Posted by Lutherf
Nobody wants mass shootings to continue. The issue is with regard to how to mitigate such events without unduly infringing on the rights of law abiding citizens.
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The issue is what Americans perceive to be their rights, coupled to their perception of how those rights are best preserved.
There is no universal law that holds you as a human being have the right to possess a lethal firearm against the possibility your life may be endangered.
Your constitution was framed and amended by men in a specific historical context, with a particular agenda, and the way in which it is fetishised and venerated by so many of you, some 3 centuries later, is frankly a tad disturbing.
Your founding fathers asserted rights in the way that best served their purposes: Create a nation state by union of the colonies; keep the Brits out. That’s really all there is to it. Asserting that a self-evident right to bear arms exists (via the negative formulation, that it not be infringed) served that agenda.