<story><title>You Know Less Than You Think About Guns</title><url>https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/05/you-know-less-than-you-think-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gustomaximus</author><text>I support strict gun control, however I feel it&amp;#x27;s wrong for the politicians to be meddling in gun control how they are. The US constitution is fairly clear (I accept people will always argue specific) that citizens to have access to firearms.&lt;p&gt;From this I find it dangerous that any politician would seek to override or &amp;#x27;reinterpret&amp;#x27; the constitution without the peoples mandate to do so. This seems ot be happening at an increasingly accelerated rate e.g. government eavesdropping and civil forfeiture.&lt;p&gt;Firearm ownership should be taken to the vote. If the nations decides to leave firearm availability as a citizen right that&amp;#x27;s democracy and the inevitable shooting are the price. Potentially more dangerous is a government that feels they can bend a nations constitution away from its spirit to their personal agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koenigdavidmj</author><text>Should freedom of unpopular speech and the right to be free of unreasonable searches be decided by popular vote? Or is it understood that constitutional rights all have the risk of making us less safe and making the government&amp;#x27;s job harder, and that removing them is hard for a reason?</text></comment>
<story><title>You Know Less Than You Think About Guns</title><url>https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/05/you-know-less-than-you-think-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gustomaximus</author><text>I support strict gun control, however I feel it&amp;#x27;s wrong for the politicians to be meddling in gun control how they are. The US constitution is fairly clear (I accept people will always argue specific) that citizens to have access to firearms.&lt;p&gt;From this I find it dangerous that any politician would seek to override or &amp;#x27;reinterpret&amp;#x27; the constitution without the peoples mandate to do so. This seems ot be happening at an increasingly accelerated rate e.g. government eavesdropping and civil forfeiture.&lt;p&gt;Firearm ownership should be taken to the vote. If the nations decides to leave firearm availability as a citizen right that&amp;#x27;s democracy and the inevitable shooting are the price. Potentially more dangerous is a government that feels they can bend a nations constitution away from its spirit to their personal agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mendenhall</author><text>Just wanted to say the United States of America is not a democracy, it is a republic. In fact many framers of the constitution warned of democracy and spoke strongly against it.&lt;p&gt;Not trying to be petty but I do think details like that are important. There is a massive difference between the two forms of government.</text></comment>