Just saying I know loads of Texans that don't even own one. Then again, I know plenty that own way more then you.
Yes, my experience is the same as yours.
single-issue voters are generally low information voters.
and so far you're not making your case much brighter by harping on the 2nd Amendment as though it were found in the bible...
this is just silly logic, in addition to being ignorant.
there's no such thing as "the end" when it comes to amendments, especially the 2nd. do some homework. you sound like a demagogue.
the 2nd Amendment - like every other amendment - has seen its share of violations and undercutting and regulation long before people like you started pretending that there was a vast Liberal conspiracy to abolish it. no one is talking in such terms. some people just want more regulations than you do. they're not saying we should ban guns. but you guys are over there like FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS, DON'T GIVE AN INCH as though the 2nd Amendment were a religious institution over whose grounds you're willing to live or die.
it's sad.
Just to be clear, I'm not a Christian and and I'm not a Constitutionalist. However, I think the Bill of Rights is essential, and we should be highly skeptical of any attempt to reduce or abolish it. Those articles, to my way of thinking, are absolutely necessary checks on the power of government. They aren't even
complete protections against tyranny, they're just a kind of baseline. If we have to start cutting into those basic things, even superficially, we know we've really lost our way.
More importantly than any legal document, though, I think human beings have natural rights, universal and inalienable. If the law of the land is that slavery is right, the law is wrong. If the law of the land is that everyone but gay people can get married, the law is wrong. And if the law of the land is that a human being cannot keep a modern, effective tool on his person for meeting any potential force with force, the law is wrong. If there's any right a person has, it's the right to life, and the right to resist indignities and violence. This is not an academic point that can be deconstructed and reconsidered. I can't deny my need for a gun any more than I can deny my need for food or sex. I feel the way I do because of what I am, not what I think. If you're built different, fine. But this is who I am.
Now, you suggested I'm being unreasonable because nobody is saying we should ban guns. This might be technically true, but it's practically false. Nobody is saying the words "We should ban guns" because that would never work in America. Instead, they propose we continue to "allow guns" but ban all the useful ones, something like the schoolyard bully's game of
I'm Not Touching You. You can still "bear arms", so long as there are no detachable magazines and the fixed ones can only hold ten rounds and it can't resemble anything that any serious military user would require and while we're at it let's talk about just banning semi-automatics altogether....