It has never changed. How people see something changes, but the purpose has been to remain a firm foundation.
I am always suspicious of any politician who wants to control others, regardless of party. All this heavy breathing after a shooting ignores bombs going off elsewhere, and more importantly, the day to day killings that happen in the cities with the strictest gun control run by one party for the last 50 years and whose victims and perpetrators tend to be minorities. Why is that not important? Why don't people demand a change in leadership? Why are we ignoring that guns are trafficked across from Mexico? One of the cities is Obama's hometown; why is that not important?
Taking a tool will do nothing to change that circumstance.
(
BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 1 Jul 2016, 18:13,
Reply)
I' moderately pro gun personally (so total miss about Mexico), but you look like you haven't read those articles at all...
"A quick quiz: In what century did the Supreme Court first rule that people
have an individual right to own guns? The answer is the 21st century. It was
not until 2008 -- the year Barack Obama was elected president -- that the
Court initially ruled that the Constitution imposes serious barriers to gun
control. And it did so only by a narrow 5-4 margin.
To understand the magnitude of that change, go back to 1991, when Chief Justice
Warren Burger, then retired, agreed to an interview on national television. Burger
was a strong conservative, admired on the right, and specifically chosen by
President Richard Nixon to combat what he saw as the Supreme Court's left-wing
activism."
etc.
(
omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Fri 1 Jul 2016, 21:33,
Reply)