Accepting Reasonable 2nd Amendment Limitations

NOW, RIGHT FROM THE START, let's get this clear: I like guns. When i was about ten my father gave my older sister and me BB guns(rifles) which gave us many hours of enjoyment. About the same time dad taught us how to load and shoot a single shot .22 rifle, and we plugged away at beer cans, 'tother side of the creek.

Ah those halcyon days of early childhood, on the river, eating, swimming, sunning, shooting...I keep thinking about getting a nice BB rifle, and a single shot twenty two...I bet i will, in the fairly near future.. I could have the same fun, again, just like forty seven years ago, when i was ten..

I am not a member of the NRA, but I believe in the second amendment, and the National Rifle Association..i just happen to think that sometimes they go too far, are a bit too extreme, dramatic, and demonstrative in their defense of second amendment rights.

All across america today, saturday, january 19, gun advocates gathered at state capitols to protest Obama's gun control proposals and proclamations. What is disturbing is the angry intensity with which they did so.

Obama's propoasls and executive orders aren't really all that extreme, are they? Its not like He is trying to take everyone's guns away. Don't most of his actions have to do with the number of bullets in a clip or magazine, and how thorough a background check must precede the purchase of an automatic weapon, and so forth?

Pretty tame stuff, seems like.  Nothing unreasonable, or drastic. Yet, on the steps of state capitals, ultra right wingers screamed "don't take my thirty round clip away!" I mean, sheesh. Methinks the gun rights advocates doth protest too much. they claim they fear incrementalism; the withering away of gun owner's rights, one small step at a time.

and they may just have a point there.  But all pro gun folks must admit that we have a real problem with gun violence in america, and there is no way to tell in advance who will kill, so, in order to keep ridiculously powerful weapons away from future killers, maybe we have to keep such weapons away from everyone. Doesn't seem like all that much of a sacrifice. At least the mass random murders would have more trouble sustaining fire, and would have to reload more often.