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How does Europe have freedom without the Bill if Rights? How does Australia? How does New Zealand? How does Canada?

 

Not really. It had given up active resistance to it almost a century earlier. Newton's work had pretty much ended debate on heliocentrism. It took awhile for the Catholic Church to officially end prohibition of heliocentric texts, but the fight had been given up long before.

Catholicism also wasn't a predominant religion in colonial America, FWIW.

 

Even if they don't specifically call it "The Bill of Rights," almost every country with a constitution has something similar contained in its constitution. A lot of those seem to have been inspired by the United States constitution and its Bill of Rights.

In Canada it's called The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was preceded by the Canadian Bill of Rights.
Australia doesn't have a Bill of Rights but has instead worked some of the same provisions into its actual constitution.
New Zealand passed "The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act of 1990."
France has had a ton of different constitutions since 1792, but all of the democratic ones have included provisions for various personal freedoms. Same with Germany, which also implemented a checks and balances system after World War II.

It's not a coincidence, either. A lot of European revolutions in the late 18th and 19th centuries (most notably the French Revolution) were inspired by the Americans' success. A lot of the ideals carried over, were incorporated into the new countries and their governments, and have largely remained for the past 200 years.

 

And they can all control their gun owners.

We cannot, and that is the difference.

 

While Congress may be unable to agree on or have the courage to pass gun control legislation, it’s not because they could not do so under the 2d Amendment.

I’ve posted sections of Scalia’s opinion in Heller v D.C. several times. While the Court struck down laws regulating handguns in the owner’s home, Scalia wrote the 2d A does not prevent all regulation of who owns arms and what arms they own, giving some examples permissible regulations in both categories.

So to say we cannot may be practically true but there is not a Constitutional barrier to some gun control.

 

It can be done. We've done it before.

Fully automatic weapons were banned for civilians who did not have a Federal gun license that allowed them to possess them as a result of their use by the gangsters of the 1920's and 30's. The Thompson submachine gun and the BAR were used to kill policemen carrying six shot .38 revolvers. Until they were banned you could walk into a gun store and buy full auto weapons. It was a law that made sense, and while there was always some grumbling from the gun guys, it mostly wasn't a big deal.

The AR has achieved similar status but it has been marketed to anyone who wanted one, and the NRA has been running propaganda about it for twenty years or better. Pulling the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of those in off the street is going to be difficult to impossible.

It it a matter of will. Only if the whole damn population and most of the government decides they have to go will there be even a chance - and after Sandy Hook and Las Vegas, I don't know what catastrophe would be enough to cause sufficient outrage to get it done.

 

About Facebook. You're gonna love this.

My daughter came across a Kids in the Hall thread. She then tagged me and wrote, "I crush your head."

Seven-day ban.

Nobody home ...

 

I read the first post on this thread and skipped to the end to ask why the hell there’s not a NSFW tag on this.

 

The guy in this gif resembles a grade-school classmate of mine.
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