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No, I asked you why you are unable to access a gun when 20% of households can and a common answer in the population is being a criminal so it's a pretty likely possible reason for it.
Do you not know two adults who will vouch for you? That seems a red flag on its own.
20% of household have guns, I doubt 20% of households have never seen a doctor ever so it seems like there's a misunderstanding on your side. Either that or it is violating rights and there is really just a large portion of people who have never seen a doctor before.
Somehow they've been able to do it and while I don't know the specific of state law if they're specifically violating court rulings there are processes to punish them for it in court. Either they're "skirting' the rulings by doing something not yet ruled against, you misunderstand the rulings in question, SCOTUS is compromised by gun haters (despite as you say ruling in favor of the 2nd amendment multiple times), or you're in the middle of a legal correction and are just frustrated that procedures can take time.
@OliveTapenade, this too. It's a RIGHT to keep and bear arms. Here we have defection; the insistence that the right to keep and bear arms requires two adults (three to bear) to vouch to the state that you are indeed moral enough to own a weapon, before you can own one. That's not a reasonable condition on a right, as we would easily see if we applied it to speech or worship. But the defector will not even acknowledge the defection; no, this is presented as if OF COURSE it is right and just the way thing work.
I'm here to yeschad and say the world would be a marginally better place if speech or worship required two people to vouch for you.
Even parliamentary debate requires only a single person to vouch for you (the "second" to a motion).
Sure but two randos are easier to get than one parliamentarian.
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Take it up with the courts, there will be plenty of gun rights organizations who like to fight for gun ownership freedom.
Neither of the cases you cited cover such a restriction, and while I said courts are generally not blind they are also not all encompassing. I never said it was right for such a restriction to exist, I'm just curious as to why it's an obstacle for you in particular given you're saying you can not get a gun.
If you want my personal opinion, it shouldn't be a restriction. But until this is taken up in courts and properly ruled on, the analogy does not work because they are not disobeying court orders. And I can not say whether or not it is, only if I personally think it should or should not be, it is the courts who will rule on the actual constitutionality of it.
As for any particular individual (regardless of whether or not such a restriction is allowed under the constitution), I still do find it a red flag if someone doesn't have two other adult humans willing to say they trust them.
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