Comments on: Shooting holes in the Constitution: some thoughts on guns and violence http://madronoranch.com/?p=357 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Heather and Martin http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-164 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:13:41 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-164 To Anonymous: That's an excellent question and it points precisely to the reason I see legislation as an inefficient (though necessary)tool to promote more responsible gun ownership. Perhaps more important than legislation is a conversation within the community of gun owners what the right to bear arms in the 21st century looks like. Just because a person has a right doesn't mean that right should always be exercised. For example, some people choose to give up their drivers' licenses as they get older because they judge themselves to be a danger to other people on the road–and they make this choice even when they have valid licenses and even though it restricts their mobility. Surely it's in society's best interests to promote the idea that willingly laying aside a right is an honorable option. I see nothing in NRA rhetoric that encourages that kind of conversation; if anything, it seems to trigger immediate accusations of conspiracies by the liberal elite to ban all guns. As to your own situation, of course I can't say what you should do. But I hope that you're able to have a conversation in which the setting aside your right to your guns is an honorable option, should a reasonable community consider it in your and its best interest that you do so.

]]> By: Anonymous http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-163 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:19:22 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-163 I experience periodic bouts of clinical depression, which means I am classified as "mentally ill."

Does that mean I shouldn't own a gun?

If so, what should I do with the 2 shotguns and 2 rifles I now own?

]]> By: Nancy http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-162 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:40:14 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-162 Amen. Agree wholeheartedly with your article.

]]> By: Julie http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-161 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:31:24 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=357#comment-161 What will it take to break the back of the NRA?

]]>