Interrpeted that way by whom? Certainly not the courts...
Yes, see this is one of those examples I mentioned earlier. Sometimes, to a authoritarian leftist, the words "right of the people" means just that. But sometimes, as in this case with the 2A it apparently means "rights of the state, not the people'.
Norway also has a much smaller population distributed over a large area and is almost entirely ethnically homogeneous, as well as having a very relaxed social attitude about drugs. In short it is not a accurate comparison to America in any way, shape, or form. You wouldn't compare their drug crimes rates to ours would you? No, because of a long list of reasons. So to compare any of their other laws to ours is equally wrong
For starters, I'm Billy. I know you're new and haven't ever actually seen me use such a name, but that's my accepted moniker. And yes the government would CERTAINLY make attempts to violate gun rights just as they have with any other. Hence the rabid, and growing, support of groups like the NRA (who are, as far as gun rights groups go, very moderate and conciliatory)
Woah there, who said anything about overthrowing anything? My point was that it is ridiculous beyond pale to pretend that the government would never violate such rights when it has in the past.
Are these the same courts that once said black people aren't people, that holding thousands of people indefinite prisoners without trial is A-OK? I wouldn't put too much faith into them, at least not as a final measure of protection.
Oh? And how might that be? Would that be the campaign financing laws that the court you just pledged support for upheld? Hmmm....
Yes, indeed we have.
How, I must ask, is the right to arms archaic? And you'll note that even though you said we've changed the Constitution, no one in Congress has proposed changing it at this time. THAT is my biggest problem. If you wish to make such great limitations to men and their arms, then you must use an amendment, but none has ever (to my knowledge) been proposed.
Well yes, it's implicitly stated in the Constitution. Read Article 1, Section 8.
You already do. Such arms are beyond the financial means of but a few already.
Then you should find a congressmen that proposes an Amendment
Within the decade there are going to be a lot of striking down laws in CA. Well, a decade to 15 years.
You mean violence as a whole right? Otherwise you're being deluded into blaming a tool. It'd be akin to saying hammers cause carpentry.
Like institutionalization?
Free firearms training for all citizens? Sure. Just so long as it's free and available to all.
Safe is a relative term. I have no children. I keep guns loaded and within arms reach. That is 'safe' by the circumstances of my own experience and situation.
So if I want to sell it I can't? Or if my wife needs to use the gun when I'm not home? Yeah, that's a dumb idea.
FTFY
You wanna know what would make the single greatest reduction in gun deaths (or violent deaths over all)? Ending the drug war.