In an interview with The New York Times, Democratic presidential candidate John Delaney said he supports the Second Amendment, which, he claimed, “gives the American people the right to bear arms.”
But then he specified by saying, “Under the Second Amendment, they have the right to bear handguns.” At least he's frank.
The mass shootings in Texas and Ohio are only the most recent occasions for gun control activists to call for outlawing the kinds of guns that mass shooters use in their attacks.
Do private citizens have any business owning guns such as these, with which they can kill many people quickly? Often people assume a negative answer to this question, and this assumption reveals why they consider outlawing such weapons a “common sense” gun control measure.
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