First allow me to be clear. I am saying this as a gun owner and avid hunter. It's time we make a New Second Amendment that reads as follows:
“A well regulated State National Guard, being helpful to the safety and security of a State in times of need, along with the strictly regulated right of the people to keep and bear a limited number of non-automatic Arms for sport and hunting, with respect to the primary right of all people to be free from gun violence, this shall not be infringed.”
This amendment would allow States and the Government to pass laws that would regulate gun ownership in the following manner:
• As over 90% of gun violence is committed by men, in order for a man to purchase a gun, he must first get a waiver from his current wife, or any woman with whom he is currently in a relationship. If he is single, he should have a waiver signed by no less than 3 women unrelated to him.
• All automatic and semi-automatic guns are banned.
• No gun or clip can hold more than 6 bullets.
• One’s guns must be stored at one of 50 Government run gun storage facilities, each located in every State's capital city.
These are a few of the regulations that can be enacted to both protect society yet not deny hunters and sportsmen their fun. This is the sane approach that meets everyone’s needs -- everyone, that is, except those of the serial killer, the mass murderer, the violent ex-husband, the disgruntled employee or the disturbed and bullied teenager.
The idea that mere civilians need access to machine guns is an American myth. It is time we join the community of enlightened nations and that can only come with the New Second Amendment.