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28. In my book being a Dem and

saying you support gun rights doesn't make your opinion more acceptable or valid.
We really need to admit that we have a gun violence culture that does not exist in other countries. We also have an amendment to our Constitution that other countries do not have. I see a correlation between our gun violence and that amendment.
It is as if we are to accept gun violence as a given rather then do anything to try and control guns in this country because of the 2nd Amendment. I think most Americans would reject that idea just as most Americans do not own guns.
The problem as I see it is in the Supreme Court's interpretation of the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.
I do not agree that the 2nd Amendment conveys the right to keep and bear arms in the abstract.
I also do not support the complete banning of guns though I do feel that we would drastically reduce our gun violence if guns were banned as has been the case in Australia.
My vision is that everyone in this country, gun owners and non gun owners would agree that we can't keep ignoring the gun violence problem we have. And that we all would agree that some restrictions on gun rights would be preferable to increasing incidents of mass killings.
Now I am not professional enough to know what those restrictions should be. Also it is wrong to support ineffective restrictions as a knee jerk reaction to gun violence.
That's how I see it.