{"id":3834,"date":"2015-10-02T19:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2017-10-02T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T19:25:25","slug":"gun-control-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3834","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the wake of yet another senseless slaughter<\/a> in the US perpetrated by a supposedly anti-Christian mindless thug, it is time yet again for the US to contemplate a sensible level of gun control.<\/p>\n

The US does not have a problem with gun control; it has a problem with mindless violence. There are other countries in the world where gun ownership is at the same level or even higher than in the US – such as Switzerland.<\/p>\n

But gun control is a sensible measure to take whilst the real problem – a tough problem to tackle – is dealt with. The fact that the US constitution protects gun ownership is a red herring; as the name implies (the Second Amendment<\/a>), the US constitution is amenable to amendment.<\/p>\n

And even that is a bit of a red herring – the second amendment does not protect gun\u00a0ownership for the purposes of self-defence, playing with guns at a gun range, or murdering innocent animals, \u00a0It protects gun ownership for the purposes of making up a well-regulated militia :-<\/p>\n

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gun control regulations that do not prevent gun ownership by members of a well regulated militia are not in breach of the second amendment.<\/p>\n

If for example the US brought in laws which required gun owners to be members of a well regulated militia (which as a minimum should ensure that militia commanders are subject to stringent checks), store their weapons in a militia armoury, and only be allowed to use those weapons under the supervision of militia officers, it would go a long way to preventing senseless slaughters.<\/p>\n

The main aim with that is to ensure that gun usage is subject to collective decision making – crowd-sourcing the decision to use the weapons if you like.<\/p>\n

If gun usage is controlled by collective decision making, there is less chance of a murderous maniac slaughtering innocent victims.<\/p>\n

You may think that as a UK citizen, this is none of my business, but I dispute that. The victims of this latest senseless slaughter were my fellow humans, and as a human I have the right to stick my oar in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of yet another senseless slaughter in the US perpetrated by a supposedly anti-Christian mindless thug, it is time yet again for the US to contemplate a sensible level of gun control. The US does not have a problem with gun control; it has a problem with mindless violence. There are other countries […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1046,1348,1347,129],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gun-control","tag-militia","tag-oregon","tag-us","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-ZQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5040,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}