It's not an either/or. Dealing with mental health does not exclude us from dealing with guns
No, it's the bill of rights that excludes you from "Dealing with guns"
The bill of rights doesn't exclude us from requiring someone to pass a background check before letting them buta gun.
It most certainly does. When the bill of rights enumerates a right, the only qualifications that may be checked are the qualifications in the bill.
The only qualification to vote is citizenship. The qualification to engage in political speech is NULL. The qualification for liberty is a lack of conviction by due process.
There is no qualification in the 2nd amendment. It implies that if you are sent to prison for murder it's your lack of liberty that prevents you from buying a gun, not a conviction. If there should be a qualification the constitution needs to be amended.
And even if you think it does that's an entirely different conversation.
No it isn't.
Yes they are. If you're going to pretend that we're in a mental health crisis which is the "real" reason people are getting shot up in schools and elsewhere regularly, then as a lawmaker it is your job to figure out how to address it.
The job of government is to protect rights. No other problem takes priority. This is a misdirection, the point is about the false dichotomy. "Solve mental health (magically though law) or we get to grab the guns".
No.
Yes, your ultimatum does because it was crafted to be ridiculous.
Evasion. You only find it ridiculous because you understand why the presumption of innocence must be a right. You aren't willing to sacrifice the innocent to reduce crime. What you are willing to do is irrelevant if you claim authority under the social contract of the constitution. What matters is what is in the contract.
I know you don't care about the contract, you only care about what you believe to be true, like me. The difference is I admit it. This is because you are dishonest.
As is the position that the right for every American to go out and own an assault weapon, buy a gun with no background check, or carry around a firearm in public outweighs the danger to the public these rights have.
I'm sorry you don't like the constitution, I have a few problems it with myself; but I'm not the one who thinks "it's the law, whatever the 'judge' says goes" is the end of the controversy.
Here is a suggestion: How come it's always bullied nihilistic kids, half of them with a history of psychoactive drugs? How about we let the kids who are being bullied not attend school
Please tell me this is satirical
It is not.
