I understand your point, but I have to disagree. What additional 'reasonable precautions' for gun ownership would enhance public safety? How about not selling guns to mentally ill people? There should be a system in place to keep that from happening. No reasonable person can deny that.
"The Dems" don't want them all. You can't paint people with that broad of a brush. As I stated before, there are MILLIONS of Dem gun owners and hunters that won't allow "them all" to be taken. It's just not a credible supposition, and it's not politically feasible in my opinion. Lots of Dem politicians own guns as the original post showed, don't forget. They don't want them taken away any more than you or I. Be vigilant, yes. Paranoid, no. America is still a representative Democracy. Let's treat it like one.
No question there are democrats, both citizens and elected officials, who support RKBA.
No one would disagree that stopping mentally ill people and/or criminals from getting guns would be a good thing. However, the problem is how to do it without trampling and disrespecting the rights, privacy, and freedoms of others. These "good intentions" and being "reasonable" are the catch-words of gun control, but the laws have not worked anywhere they have been tried no matter how restrictive or comprehensive the laws have been. This is why gun control will eventually lead to confiscation if followed to its utlimate conclusion. Because it does not work and they keep calling for more and more until there is nothing left. This is not being paranoid, it is simply being realistic.
Also, we are a Constitutional Republic.
