And what exactly are those limits on what people can have?
The details could be hammered out through some sort of compromise. I would personally tend to lean more on the stricter side of things... but I think that's an answer I can't really give you exactly.
Also, while I understand the desire for Red Flag laws, please explain to me how Red Flag laws aren't a violation of the Due Process clause, because for the removal of ALL OTHER RIGHTS people have to go through a complete criminal trial and appeal with full legal representation and a jury of their peers. Not an anonymous report to the police that's brought before a single judge to sign off on with no legal representation.
It's one of the hardest issues when dealing with this. Guns really should be treated as a right. I can have my driver's license suspended for all manner of things, and that is
much more critical to my survival than a gun is. People can be put on a no-fly list for basically anything. No due process.
No right is unlimited. It's about finding a balance. We need guns for protection, but protection is also... trying to make sure dangerous people who shouldn't have them, don't.
I generally agree. I have a collection of both conservative and liberal beliefs, I support the military (generally considered conservative), gun rights, border security and belief in harsh penalties for murderers, rapists and child molesters. I also believe that government services such as medicaire and tuition-free college are not that unreasonable an ask (we already have police departments and fire departments for example, which is a form of socialism-lite).
I fall somewhere in the middle with most of these.
I support the military... while I also don't worship them. I appreciate a soldier exactly as much as I appreciate a sanitation worker. They're both people doing jobs that need to be done, that kind of suck. No more, no less. We PROBABLY don't need to spending the money we do on the military. But by and large, of course I support the military.
I support "gun rights"... in that, sure I don't think guns need to be banned but I fall more left on them. They should be
severely controlled.
I support border security... but I think the best way to do that is the radically streamline the asylum and legal entry process to make it astronomically easier and more efficient than it is currently.
I'm ok with harsh penalties, I generally don't support the death penalty. Death penalty should be reserved for an incredibly short list of people who simply can not safely be held and there is absolutely no other choice. On the flip, I think we need massive prison reform and start to actually look into working towards reform, not punishment.
I condemn both the 25 deaths and hundreds of millions in property damage incurred by the BLM riots, but I empathize with and understand their frustrations. Same with the J6 rioters, I condemn the people they got killed and the damage that was caused, but I empathize with and understand their frustrations. I will never understand how people can be so frothingly rabid and partisan. From the DPRK/Kim regime and PRC simp leftards to the right-wing #NAFO Azerbaijan/Turkey simps as a few examples, I cannot understand people who let political ideologies consume their identity, they're just as bad as the far-left Trans-Rights-Activist LGBTQ that put rainbow shit all over everything or have those asinine bumper stickers and the "I'm triggering the libtards" 100% Trump sycophant cultists.
Agreed. Both are absolutely horrible.
As someone pointed out earlier, a Teddy-style Bull-Moose Party comeback would fix soooo many problems in America's political climate. How do you feel about a blanket ban on the mentally ill being able to obtain guns (legally) and keep them for defense, by the way?
I'd love to see a modern Bull-Moose Party. It will never happen. We're way to tribalized and nobody will compromise.
I'm not sure I agree with any kind of blanket ban on most things, but I absolutely think it should be an option available under the vein of red flag laws to allow a medical professional the ability to deem a person unfit or unsafe to own weapons. I think context always matter and "mentally ill" can mean alot of things. Someone with ADHD is "mentally ill". According to some, a trans person is "mentally ill". I don't think either of those things should preclude one from gun ownership.
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