There’s nothing wrong with it now. Anyway, ‘fixing’ it isn’t going to do any good, because the people that want to circumvent it aren’t gong to like the ‘new’ language any better that the existing language.
Fix for me would be:
Ideal: ban all handguns.
Okay: require registration of handguns, with licensing and possibly background check. Licensing similar to licensing for automobile, that is, renew at intervals and testing of responsible use.
Keep. The 2nd wouldn’t be the first Amendment I’d amend or fix.
Fix, nobody needs a 30 round clip for a handgun.
Dump. A gun can’t be used for personal defense (though it certainly can be used for personal offense), and history has shown that private gun ownership doesn’t do anything to prevent tyranny, either. I’ve no objection to use of guns in sport, but it’s absurd to have the highest law of the land explicitly protecting sporting equipment.
At least, that would be the ideal. Realistically, it’ll never happen, so I know to choose other battles to fight.
The Second Amendment protects the right to throw out your government at gunpoint, which the guys who wrote it had just done.
I think each individual person should be allowed to defend themselves.
Keep.
Unless fix is understood to mean “not confined to just firearms / extend to all weaponry”. I’d favor that.
Uh…
What on earth do you mean by that?
Dump. I moved from America to a country with much stricter gun laws and it’s good. Crime, despite the predictions of gun fans, did not mushroom or create a situation where the only armed people were criminals. It’s still possible to hunt or target shoot if one wishes. And I never hear gunfire at night and wonder who just got killed or open the news in the morning and discover there’s been another slaughter. It’s awesome, really, and turned my thinking around on the subject. Honestly, I wonder why America is so irrational on the subject. When gun control is discussed some yankees act like the topic is outlawing penises.
Where in America did you live before, and what were the gun laws like? I only ask because most cities where people could genuinely claim to hear gunfire at night and wonder who got killed tend to be cities with fairly strict gun regulations.
Where do you live now, just out of curiosity?
I voted keep. Frankly, I don’t really trust anyone who’d have to political clout to “fix” it to fix it without screwing it up—intentionally, or not.
(Even if it was by someone against gun control…it’d probably just end up meaning I’d get any federal tax refunds paid in M1911s instead of money. Fun as that would be, of course, it’d probably get old after a couple of years.)
Plus, to echo pulykamell, I think it’s probably too late, anyway. It’d be like trying to ban alcohol again. Hell, actually, I think it might be like trying to ban alcohol in Russia.
I last heard suspicious gunfire in Lansing, Michigan.
I live in Brisbane, Australia. It has strict gun laws, compared to Lansing. No gunfire.
The Supreme Court has decided the first half of the amendment means : exactly nothing.
That’s their method, fine. The fix is done when the Supreme Court has stated which other words of the Constitution are meaningless.
Last time I heard gunfire at night was in the winter (when it gets dark at 4 PM) and I lived near a shooting range. I say we fix it since it was originally intended to allow people to prepare militias at a moments notice. It’s not like the King of England could just come in here and start pushing you around these days. Fix it how? Well I’m sure our politicians can do a marvelous job of screwing that up.
Dumpity dump dump dump. You want to hunt, knock yourself out. A single shot rifle or shotgun is plenty. Other than that, you don’t NEED a gun.
I’d love to fix the first half for clarity for the reasons Sevastopol notes, but as I can’t think of anyone I’d trust to fix it (including myself) I voted “Keep”.
The shooting ranges I go to employ those things called lights…
Fix it by making it clear that US citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, of whatever sort they choose.
Although it is not possible to phrase anything such that some old nag in a black bathrobe cannot simply “interpret” it to mean the exact opposite of whatever it says.
Regards,
Shodan
Keep. Which, coming from me, I’m sure is no surprise to the OP.