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Originally Posted by choof
touching or even implying that the second amendment should be changed is a shitshow just waiting to happen and I legitimately believe that if the second amendment was changed america would be thrown dangerously close to civil war
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Which should be, to all right thinking people, FUCKING TERRIFYING. Even a straight repeal of the 2nd amendment wouldn't actually DO ANYTHING. Taking away just the fact that the rights are not to be infringed upon does not actually infringe upon them.
Basically no country outside the USA has a constitutionally mandated right to bear arms, and yet in all of them you can bear arms. Canada has almost as many guns per person as the USA has, without a constitutional guarantee against any infringement. Our infringements are quite small.
Here's Canadian gun law in a nutshell:
1. You need a license. Getting one involves a background check and some interviews. you have to renew it every five years.
2. You need safety training.
3. If you want to own a firearm in the 'restricted' or 'prohibited' class of firearms, you have to go through a more robust step 1, and you have to register it.
That's basically it. There's more stuff around transporting/selling/moving restricted and prohibited guns, but for the primary purposes people need guns (hunting, sport shooting, farm defense) most kinds of rifle and shotgun are just "Get a license, get safety training, congratz you are a gun owner"