re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

Each and every right comes with responsibilities. Mr Mahr forgets that about the first. The vast majority of us remember our responsibilities under the 2nd. Under the law as defined by the court, the militia is not a requirement and the Feds have the right to regulate as does the states. As shown & upheld in court time and time again. Hundreds, arguably thousands of federal state & local gun laws have held up to legal scrutiny. We don’t have to join a militia or the military to own a gun for any legal purpose. That would be a rather blatant poison pill in current times. Think single women in high crime areas or subsistence hunters.

I totally agree with regulating, even in a relatively strict way as California does. Suggesting we just do away with fundamental passages of the constitution as the only proper way the left side of politics should address the issue is what is utterly indefensible.