one the govt can't keep everyone safe nor shhould they try to keep everyone safe personal responsibility
is what needs to be done. red flag laws are nothing more than and end run around around the 2nd amendment.
i don't care if others disagree that's my two cents on the matter.
I don't disagree with you Bud, but a lot of people today either get confused about the way things should be instead of the way they really are, or they're just too scared to face that they've lost control of their country,
A government of the people by the people is what the Founders created and the Constitution's stern limits on the central government make that clear, the problem started before the ink on that precious document was dry when congress began assuming powers that the Constitution didn't bestow on them and making laws that the Constitution didn't give them authority to create.
The People back then had an excuse, there was little to no flow of information on which the people could gain the knowledge of what their elected officials were doing in their name so they did nothing to put them in their place.
We The People today don't have that excuse, we have all sorts of commercial, private, and social media to keep us up to date right to the minute in real time that puts the information out there for all of us to see, well, we complain, we get angry, we call them crooks and bastages, we let them know by phone, by e-mail, and on twitter and face book, and when they ignore us We The People do NOTHING, we let them get away with all the $hit they want to and more, SHAME ON US.
Back after the war to end all wars when the veterans didn't get the benefits they were promised they didn't sit on their asses and Bittch, they put on their uniforms, shouldered their old Springfield rifles and marched on Washington, they got their benefits PDQ.
It's going to be interesting to see what We The People do when the government (State and Federal) at some point not too far down the road just suspends or revokes the Second amendment or gets the Supremes to overturn Heller and declare the Second amendment as a right owned by the government as it applies to The Militia which is now the National Guard and was Federalized in the late 1900's.
I'm betting that there'll be a lot of hand wringing, complaining, and crying foul, but not much else, everyone will be too busy turning in their guns with tears in their eyes, and that will be the end of this great experiment.
When the Continental Congress came out of committee with it's newly created government Ben Franklin was asked "What kind of government have you given us sir", Franklin's reply was "Why a Republic, if you can keep it", he warned us and we didn't keep it.