what is your views on gun violence?

[Pirate Steve]

I think we're pretty well fucked here in America, just because there's so many guns per-capita.
All laws and regulations do, is prevent law-abiding citizens from getting armed. If someone's gonna go 'cidal, they're obviously not concerned with gun laws at all, and will get armed regardless.
Maybe tax the hell outta bullets... spree's would be less likely if it's $100/shot.
I'm all for the second amendment... but our founding fathers used muskets, not AR-15's and automatics.
"Hold on everyone... this spree will continue in 5 minutes once I finish reloading. Stay there plz."
Swords are more my style... that takes skill to slaughter 100's of people with a greatsword.

The second amendment was put in place so that we could defend ourselves from a corrupt government. How often people forget... Truth be told, it's probably time to shut this shit down and start over.

it says that in itself

it is literally qualified by the whole "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" part, saying that it guarantees weapons for everyone all the time with no restrictions is like saying the sentence "when our work is finished we will all go home for the day" means everyone gets to go home right now! if you ignore the first dependent clause, the rest of the sentence loses its intended meaning. what is a militia? basically by today's standards it would be the national guard.

so the second amendment protects the right of National Guard members to have guns.

[maks]

that's a stupid argument, the supreme court exists to interpret the constitution (which regardless of how long ago it was written still remains the law of the land) and they ruled that it applies to individuals

that's a stupid argument, the supreme court exists to interpret the constitution (which regardless of how long ago it was written still remains the law of the land) and they ruled that it applies to individuals

the supreme court can be wrong and has been wrong many times

like in 2010 on citizens united
or in 2015 letting fags marry HEH jk yall free love

[maks]

as for citizens united that's only stupid if you look at it through the liberal talk-show spin of "DURR CORPORATIONS AREN'T PEOPLE ROFL" what it actually said was that corporations are made up of people who have the same right of free speech as anyone else regardless of what groups they happen to belong to, which by any metric makes total sense

[maks]

if the kkk nambla and the aryan brotherhood are protected under the first amendment then so is time warner