Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Hear CNN's Jake Tapper press Florida lawmaker on gun control" video.

@TR344-x3 Yes, some jerks have used other methods of mass murder. But, you cannot deny 1. The vast majority of mass murder is carried out with firearms, and other methods are rare anomalies. 2. The primary purpose of a firearm is killing, which makes it different from a pressure cooker, vehicle or even a cooking knife.
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@stevestoll3124 No well ordered means not chaotic, as in a military unit that follows a chain of command. BY no stretch of the imagination does it mean armed to the teeth.
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@ARepublicIfYouCanKeepIt Your sentiment is correct, but the phrase "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is from the Declaration of Independence, not the First Amendment. The First Amendment guarantees freedom from an established state religion, (which some Texas judges seem to have forgotten) and freedom of speech.
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@TR344-x3 Look up the history of guns. Their original purpose was killing, primarily people. Killing game was a secondary use.
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@SMS2884 Which actually is another point in favor of sensible gun control laws. Other countries require someone to prove they are of sound mind, know how to safely handle a weapon, and have proper storage for the weapon(s). If guns are stored properly, children and those of unsound mind, cannot get access to them.
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@SMS2884 Our northern neighbor, Canada, has sensible gun laws, requiring education and a license to buy a firearm suitable for hunting, and more education, stricter testing and proof of adequate storage to buy a pistol or semi-automatic weapon. Somehow, mass shooting events are very rare, but so are "kids getting hacked or blown up". Those laws seem to work, and most Americans polled say they would prefer such a system. I can understand that a mentally unstable person might be denied a handgun. But only that nut job would object to that. Is your problem, a fear you would be determined unstable?
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@Freewilly2000 Without the first phrase, about needing a military force to protect the country, the second phrase makes no sense. Maybe your memory doesn't go as far back as 2008, but prior to the Heller decision, the right to bear arms only pertained to the military.
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@stevestoll3124 One sentence, comprised of two phrases. Hence the semicolon.
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Property is taken from people all the time. The kid borrows the family car, and buys some drugs, and the police take the family car and sell it at auction. Eminent Domain is used to take people's property all the time. Ranchers lost parts of their grazing land, to build that stupid wall. In Portland, in the 1950s, the entire Jewish section of town was taken, ostensibly to build a freeway, that was actually built elsewhere. Then the seized property was sold, for bargain prices, to developers. People who are moving from one part of the country to another, close out their bank accounts, and travel with all their money as cash. If the cops pull them over, they say having that much cash is proof they are dealing drugs, and confiscate the money. Then it is up to the person, who the cops ripped off, to prove it did not come from drug sales. The government really rips people off all the time. Losing a gun, when you're dangerous seems like weak tea.
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If your gun is taken from you wrongly, you can get it back. The same is not true, if your life is taken. Protecting the right to continue breathing, is more important than debatable gun rights.
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@jimmcloughlin The Magna Carte is hardly comparable to the Bill of Rights. For one, it only guaranteed rights to the peerage, not the people. I do thank your country, for the idea of a trial by a jury of one's peers. But the Constitution was a ground changing document, and is far more important to the idea of democratic rule, than the Magna Carte.
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@SMS2884 Despite being unhinged, he was able to legally buy a gun. He was an adult, and didn't live at home. At what point do we stop blaming parents, and start correctly blaming the easy access to guns?
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@lesgilbert50 Name another "right" that has caused so many living, breathing human beings being to die?
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@SMS2884 Funny, my son-in-law keeps his weapons stored in a gun safe, but still was able to access them when a drunk came banging on their door.
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@christophernaggs4018 You aren't a WELL REGULATED MILITA.
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@chrisbammer4946 If that were true, and 40% of Americans are a clear and present danger, and still own guns, that situation should be rectified.
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@Bellaloewe98 In all honesty, I wish we'd copy your gun laws. I grew up shooting, but I wasn't allowed to hunt outside of bow season. My mom was too afraid of some yahoo, getting liquored up, and shooting me. If, as a puny 12 year old girl, I could bring down a nice sized buck, these big strong men should be able to take their game with a 22. Of course, that takes more skill.
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@Freewilly2000 Do you think the Founding Fathers were illiterate, and wrote nothing down. We know, because we've read what they have written. We know because we've taken history classes. They needed an organized militia to fight to protect the state, not individual property. Read the whole sentence, of the Second Amendment, don't just cherry pick out the last clause. Unless you're part of an organized military group, that is protecting the state, you have no absolute right to arms.
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@Riclmnopp It's only a right, if you're in the military.
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Kiss My Axe You elided the driving part of DWI. You do have to take a test to drive.
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@chrisbammer4946 1. Pass a psych exam to prove you're not prone to rage or are delusional 2. Demonstrate you know gun safety, and have adequate safe storage for your weapon. Simple, isn't it?
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@jimmcloughlin We don't need to end the Second Amendment. All that is needed is for SCOTUS to reverse the Heller decision. Prior to that decision, in 2008, the right to bear arms was determined to belong only to those in a "well regulated militia" ie. the military.
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@Bellaloewe98 Sorry that our crazy is killing your people.
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@Aegon The Fourth Amendment bans illegal searches and seizures .
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@Riclmnopp Nobody takes children away, based upon a mere accusation, but I've known some clumsy children, who seem to break one bone after the other. Another mother and I had brought our daughters to the park, and her daughter just fell off the the monkey bars. She only dropped a foot, but landed so badly she broke her leg. It was weird. I'd seen my daughters jump from much higher heights, and land completely unharmed numerous times. (Perhaps it was because this girl was quite obese.) Since this was the second time this child had broken bones, in a couple of months, I had to sign an affidavit that nobody had struck or pushed the child. Otherwise CPS was going to foster the kid. Frankly, if I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it either.
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Wasn't Florida the state, that finally took action, and passed a few sensible gun laws, after the Parkland massacre? So, now they are gong to piss on the people of the state, and take the law away, just to prove what complete jerks they are. Charlie Sykes is right, it's performative assholery.
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@rse4379 Funny how Canada, and many other developed countries, still allow hunting and protection of livestock, yet don't have these constant mass murder scenarios. Maybe we could just copy Canada's gun laws.
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I bet he's never spoken against Eminent Domain, either. It's so handy for removing minorities from their property.
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