Inthedetails
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The 2A is never going away, especially after SM has exposed the deep hatred the MSM & many Americans have for fellow citizens who do not agree with them. They are certainly vicious.
The 2nd Amendment is not going away. That's not going to happen.
There is a whole history about why we have the Bill of Rights - and the 2nd amendment is part of the Bill of Rights. I won't go into that, but I feel rather secure that the 2nd amendment is not going to go away.
On another level, guns are indeed part of American culture. I grew up in a hunting family and grew up around guns. While I myself didn't hunt and had no interest in the guns, it didn't bother me that we had guns in the house. I never thought about them as anything other than guns my dad used to go hunting (and it was fun when he did - all the aunts and girl cousins got together when the men and boys were away and we had a blast! I loved hunting seasons.) My husband and I haven't continued the hunting tradition with our children, but plenty of our relatives have. I see no reason for that to end. People can have guns without killing other people.
However, I am an advocate of reforming our gun-regulations. I want tighter restrictions....but in no way to I want to get rid of the 2nd amendment. It doesn't have to be either/or - there is room for improvement and it's time to make changes. We can't go on like this and call ourselves a civilized country.
The hatred each side of the issue has for the other side saddens me deeply. The divide in this country is shocking and it's painful that there seems to be little interest in healing the divide. We need leadership to bring us TOGETHER....and since that's not happening, we need to do that ourselves. That's my hope in all of this.
jmo, of course