Quote:
Originally Posted by Willravel
Oh, good. I figured I'd misread it.
So what you're advocating is to strip states of the right to make rulings on guns in favor of a national standard of some kind? Not to turn your own ideology around on you, but what's the harm in allowing states to make decisions regarding gun laws? Besides, California has less than 10 gun deaths per 100,000 people and Hawaii less than 3. Compare that to gun-free Alaska at 20 per 100,000 and Wyoming at 18.8. If we've found something that works for us, what's the harm in allowing us to continue?
|
Is that just devil advocate? Because I'm pretty sure I've brought up the idea of different states having seperate policies for things like health care, gay marriade, social welfare programs instead of broad stroke federal laws. The difference is I guess that the definition of the 2nd amendment makes it nationwide IMO, where as the others aren't expresslly delegated to federal government thus reserving them to the states.