Naomi

"Under federal law, private-party sellers are not required to perform background checks on buyers, record the sale, or ask for identification, whether at a gun show or other venue."

And in other places, it's even less regulated. In some states, it's a lot more regulated. So... Your point? It's wildly unregulated in many locations and in many scenarios and guns get into the hands of people they shouldn't. Including, sometimes, 13 year old boys.

The proposed amendments were written in 1791. The right to bear arms was never intended to refer to guns like an AK that can mow down a crowd of Innocents in seconds. Think of the kinds of guns they had back there. Can't unload on a crowd when your gun takes a minute to reload.

But... That just supports the point. It's fine for people to have weapons to protect themselves, when those weapons couldn't destroy the lives of tens or hundreds of people in seconds. Now that we have weapons of literal mass destruction, there should be different laws