re: #1 HappyWarrior

I think a lot of people would settle for a literal word for word approach to the 2a.

You know, the part that starts with … “A well regulated militia”

What we have now is in no way a well regulated anything. The GOP/NRA has turned it into a free-for-all and the state with the most lax gun laws is the one shaping gun violence for the states around it (feeding iron pipelines despite best efforts of the strong gun law states - which still have lower per capita gun death rates thanks to the laws they have in place).

In the past thread, I noted that the average cost for a gunshot wound tops $154,000 per gunshot survivor. There are more than 134,000 people injured by guns annually. That’s a huge cost. The GOP thinks all that is acceptable so long as government isn’t paying for it.

Narrator: The government is paying the price for all of it.