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If I sound repetitive with this brief blog post … well, that’s just too bad, because I have to get something once again off my chest.<\/p>\n

It is that gun-owners’ rights activists are misstating the perceived threat to the Second Amendment as the nation seeks a legislative remedy to the spasm of gun violence that keeps rocking the nation.<\/p>\n

U.S. senators are conducting bipartisan talks to find some solution to this crisis. We are locked in a death struggle against those who continue to deliver horror to innocent victims, such as the lunatic who did that very thing in Uvalde just the other day.<\/p>\n

Democratic Sen. Patrick Murphy of Connecticut says he’s never seen such Republican “interest” in ending this crisis until now. He is working with GOP senators, such as John Cornyn of Texas, in that search for a solution.<\/p>\n

The Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right of citizens to “keep and bear arms.” It makes no declaration that legislation is prohibited, that Congress can enact no laws that seek to control who can acquire firearms.<\/p>\n

We hear a lot of talk these days about efforts to “disarm” Americans in the wake of tragedies such as the one that struck those children and teachers in Uvalde. I have heard nothing that disarms any law-abiding American.<\/p>\n

We can enact laws that require universal background checks for all firearms purchased; we can require Americans to be, say, 21 years of age to buy guns; we can approve red-flag laws that allow authorities to seize weapons from those deemed to be dangerous to own them.<\/p>\n

None of those options jeopardizes the Second Amendment! Each of them seeks to enact common-sense solutions that allow every American who plays by the rules to own as many firearms as he or she can afford.<\/p>\n

Let us cease with the demagoguery on guns.<\/p>\n

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If I sound repetitive with this brief blog post … well, that’s just too bad, because I have to get something once again off my chest. It is that gun-owners’ rights activists are misstating the perceived threat to the Second Amendment as the nation seeks a legislative remedy to the spasm of gun violence that … Continue reading 2nd Amendment will hold up<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[85,2037],"class_list":["post-51804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-gun-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51806,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51804\/revisions\/51806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}