The 2nd Amendment solution to gun violence

The Second Amendment solution to gun violence
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/opini...ang/index.html

Interesting article, but he passes off opinion as fact.

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The proposal is simple: Anyone purchasing a gun should be required to enlist for military reserve service, spanning the entire period of their gun ownership. Under this proposal, being granted a handgun license would simultaneously and automatically register you to serve as a reservist in the Armed Forces branch of your choice

So even honorably discharged veterans are not to be trusted to own firearms.

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Under this proposal, being granted a handgun license would simultaneously and automatically register you to serve as a reservist in the Armed Forces branch of your choice — it's that simple. And it should be that simple ... because it's what the framers intended.

There is much disagreement about this part.

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Reserve status would ensure that all guns are registered; there are currently no legal requirements for gun registration in order to purchase and own a firearm in 36 states -- no permit or license needed -- and, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence,

This is not true. The people at Giffords should know better as should the writer of this article. There is not a single state that grants immunity from federal registration requirements.

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How different would our gun debate be today if the focus weren't on the selfish right to personal protection but on our responsibility to serve our country?

Since when is personal protection selfish?

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