I guess I’m at a loss as to why the NRA equates everyone having access to assault weapons as a measure of the strength of the second amendment at all. The Supreme Court ruled on it, it remains our constitutional right. Assault weapons are like Saturday Night Specials, they have one use. Are you going to hunt deer with a machine gun? They are also supporting this bill, a bill that obviously will put law enforcement at a disadvantage and guns in the hands of the people we are trying to protect ourselves from.

This bill, the way it is currently presented will replace a perfectly good system that is already in place. I think it makes perfect sense to require background checks and a formal permitting process to carry a concealed weapon instead of just turning everyone loose with a weapon that has enough cranial activity to pick one up.

The gun manufacturers in this country must love the current state of the gun rights issue, between the fear mongering right and the double talk on the left and no common sense dialog in the middle; they are one section of the economy that is thriving. Not a bad thing unless of course your lawmakers have set the stage for a nationwide personal arms race because they can’t sit down and hammer out some mutually acceptable law that serves the people and not themselves and their handlers.

I am all for gun rights, having access to guns and ammunition in the open marketplace but lets use a little common sense and cut out the fear mongering and the liberal, save us from ourselves BS and get down to some constructive legislation.