Do Boomers consider themselves lucky regarding guns?

[Poper]

Goobermint cannot "guarantee" safety. They cannot stop spam calls.

But they SAY they can.
Who are you going to believe? The government or your lying eyes?

 

[Poper]

While the constitution itself does not contain any such limitation, its hardly a recently established precedent that there are limits even on constitutional rights. At the very least, there should be an alignment that makes sense. The 2nd Amendment rights should be aligned with the franchise, etc.

As stated, this giberish makes no sense whatsoever and reeks of the slippery slope concept of "A Living, Breathing Document". There ain't no such thing.

If you do not like the Constitution or Second Amendment, then change it. There are methods and procedures spelled out in the Constitution to do so. Anything else would be unconstitutional.

 

[Will Munny]

As stated, this giberish makes no sense whatsoever and reeks of the slippery slope concept of "A Living, Breathing Document". There ain't no such thing.

If you do not like the Constitution or Second Amendment, then change it. There are methods and procedures spelled out in the Constitution to do so. Anything else would be unconstitutional.

Let me be even more specific. If someone is not allowed to vote, should they be able to own a firearm? If someone is not allowed to own a firearm, should they be able to vote?
Its not "gibberish" its a very valid objection to the status quo, however far we decide the 2nd goes should have some logical relation to how far we extend other rights included in the constitution.
And finally, it should be clear to anyone that the constitution is too brief to serve as the only determinant of the law, case law and legislation is clearly required.

 

[lsudave]

I wasn't old enough to buy guns until Obama was already in office

You ask about Boomers, but then bring this up... you realize there are several generations between Boomers and yours, right? I'm what was called Gen X. I'd say I missed "the golden age" by about 5 yrs. My older brothers had a friend into guns in the early 80's, he got a decent job and had some money while still in his 20's. He had a full-auto Uzi or MAC 10, I forget which, and some acres. We'd spray some trees in the banks of a little bayou, it was great fun. I was still in high school at the time. By the time I graduated high school in 86, the new laws were going into effect and full auto was out of the question.

 

[Will Munny]

You ask about Boomers, but then bring this up... you realize there are several generations between Boomers and yours, right? I'm what was called Gen X. I'd say I missed "the golden age" by about 5 yrs. My older brothers had a friend into guns in the early 80's, he got a decent job and had some money while still in his 20's. He had a full-auto Uzi or MAC 10, I forget which, and some acres. We'd spray some trees in the banks of a little bayou, it was great fun. I was still in high school at the time. By the time I graduated high school in 86, the new laws were going into effect and full auto was out of the question.

The dividing line between Boom Generation and X is generally put as 1965, which would mean that the absolute oldest members of gen X were 21 when the full auto ban happened. So realistically the Baby Boomers are the last generation to have any reasonable adult gun life before the demise of that portion of the 2A

 

[Robert]

8 pages seems like more then enough.