I made this Meme for all of you Freedom Loving "2nd Amendment Supporters" out there..🇺🇸..😎..

and people say the constitution cant be amended.... Yeahhhhh, No, Its been amended quite a few times since its original inception, and that clause "The right to bare arms" Would Generally relate to the weapons they had at the time, Not freaking Miniguns capable of killing 500 people in the space of 2 seconds, I Understand why people get upset whenever someone mentions something about taking away guns, But how many more families have to suffer unbearable loss of family members due to the use of guns, Are americans REALLY Proud that they are the Number 1 country for Gun crime IN THE WORLD!? It befuddles me

Who said the constitution can't be amended? I typically point out to the anti-gun folks here on the flip, that if they want to implement the type of gun control that they clearly want, that is exactly what they need to do. Until then, the issue doesn't even get off the ground.

As for drunk driving, they already done did that too, to a degree anyways.
Raising the minimum drinking age from 18 to 21 in the 1980s has saved tens of thousands of lives since.
Likewise, hospital admissions for alcohol related illness, etc, plummeted to near nothing during Prohibition.

Weird, huh?

THAT'S how it works.

"Likewise, hospital admissions for alcohol related illness, etc, plummeted to near nothing during Prohibition."

Your source for this claim is...?

rebuild america's railroads

This meme couldn't be wrong...Could it?
Yes. Yes it could.

I've never heard this before, so I haven't given it too much thought.

However, on its face, it seems like the meme is pointing out that an approach consistent with what the gun control folks want, would mean removing sober drivers from the road, so the people breaking the law wouldn't harm them. Isn't that exactly what people who want to ban guns are suggesting? Remove guns from the hands of law abiding citizens?

It seems that applying logic in a consistent way to two separate but quite similar issues, is wrong, in your point of view.

Basically the meme seems to imply that gun laws = banning guns... which I think is a false narrative.

And idk if I would agree that those are quite similar issues. Seems a car is like a gun ONLY in that it's use can kill people. As far as I know convicted felons can't own guns but they can drive cars. Should those laws be changed?

Also this meme implies new laws would take em away from law abiding citizens... But it seems that in some instances, guns aren't even being taken from non-law abiding citizens. NYT claimed last year that only eight states have laws that provide an explicit mechanism so that people suspected of illegally owning guns are actually required to give them up. This seems like a problem.

So your problem with the meme isn't it's equal application of logic, it's with a perceived false narrative the meme has, which suggests that pro-2A types think anti-2A types want to ban guns? Sigh... I don't know why you couldn't have just said that in the first place, if you actually felt that way.

I think you've hit the nail on the head in terms of why us pro-2A folks don't want *any* *more* gun control laws; it's because we think it will lead to banning all guns (which is unconstitutional, btw.) And I think if anyone who is in favor of *more* gun control laws was being honest with themself, they would have to agree that that's exactly what those in the anti-2A movement want, or at least what the movement's leaders want.

I agree that while the meme makes guns and cars seem similar, there are some obvious, and significant dis-similarities. Rightly or wrongly, cars are viewed as necessary tools for the individual to use in making a living, which in almost all cases is not true for a gun. I think people probably feel that convicted felons who have served their time, are trying to live a law abiding life, don't need being banned from driving added to the list of hurdles for them to overcome in order to live that law abiding life. otoh, the right to keep and drive cars is not specified as the second amendment (and they made it 2nd, after free speech, for a reason.)

The meme had many problems, that was just the most obvious.. The unequal application of logic seems another.

If the laws we already have for guns aren't even being enforced idk what the point of making more would be. And gun free zones without metal detectors might as well paint a target on themselves..