After Obama, gun sellers may also love Hillary Clinton

SPC David S. - I don't think anyone should be taken care of, but when it comes to weapons, the manufacturers should not be held accountable for a weapon that was sold to a legit store, and the store sold it to a legit owner. So that would make your comparison correct. I'm not so sure it's a liberal vs. conservative thing being you have so far a reach on both, that many things normally associated with one, easily bleeds into the other...although with a different name just to add flavor. I disagree with the whole "mental health" thing. It's becoming another "get out of jail free card". Cops are using "I was in fear for my life", Blacks are using "Racist so n so was profiling me", Hispanics "They think I'm illegal and won't report them", Whites use "this isn't supposed to happen to us". All of those are cheap excuses that are all to commonly used by people both liberal and conservative. You could even change the colors, jobs, and mental status but it'll still be the same. Bottom line is, "if you did the crime, do the damn time". It's not the job that caused it, not your economic situation that caused it, not your skin tone that caused it. YOU caused it.

Well President Obama has done a lot of chest thumping with regards to gun control. He has also passed executive orders on gun control as well when the body responsible for passing legislation declined to do so.
The question is how much more should we allow our government (be it local, state and/or federal from either side) to "inconvenience" our Constitutionally guaranteed rights? If you don't mind the government "inconveniencing" your rights have at it. I on the other hand do have a problem with it. In my opinion the Second Amendment has some pretty strong language built into it. How many other Amendments specifically state "shall not be infringed?" If the government can allow our 2nd Amendment right to "chill" for 72 hours, why not any other right? How about if we have to wait 72 hours before we can exercise our 5th Amendment, or 4th Amendment rights? How about we have to wait 3 days before the 8th Amendment kicks in after being imprisoned? Just recently there was talk of not allowing persons who are on the "no-fly" list to be able to purchase firearms. Sounds good on the surface, but what if an American citizen accidentally gets on that list. Now they have had not 1 but 2 Constitutionally guaranteed rights taken from them: The right to bear arms, and the right to due process. I'll wrap this up by stating once we allow the government to take something, they have a really really hard time giving it back.

Sgt John Steinmeier - He can chest bump, pump, or do whatever, but the argument on 2A is taking AWAY weapons. So your desire to buy and get one isn't infringed at all. You are able to go get it, and if the state or federal law states you have a mandatory wait period, that's inconvenienced, not infringed. You're still going to get your weapon. As far as being in jail for three days before being brought to the judge, not sure where you live, but it's not uncommon to be locked up Friday and have to wait till Monday to see the judge, so in that sense, we are doing just what you said. The "No-Fly" list is a whole different animal. On that I do share your concern, but would folks have as much care in them if it was limited to Islamic people, minorities, or other social "outcasts"? I've seen on the news where I am how someone sharing the SAME NAME ends up paying a price for just that, and they're the WRONG person. So if your name was Muhammed Farok, and there is a Muhammed Farok on the list, you might end up chilling until they determine you're not the Farok they're looking for. To many in this country with those names "should" put you on that list. Trump said it after the SB shootings; with a name like that, he must be a terrorist. Da hell? There is no "perfect solution". In taking any action to "protect" there will be a negative reaction against those you're trying to "protect". And due process? May as well pick that one up and put it in your back pocket. I'm sure the Japanese Americans in WWII never thought they'd loose everything, and wind up in internment camps. I'm sure the Indians didn't think they'd loose ALL of their land and be "given the opportunity" to move to a nice location in the middle of nowhere (aka bigger internment camps), and told "be happy".

Sometimes I wonder if all the gun control talk isn't the super elite just getting wary of another Bolshevik revolution as so little attention is actually focused on the causes of gun violence. I do agree if you give an inch your screwed as you set the precedence. However if they keep pulling on the noose people will eventually revolt - just hope they do before all the guns get taken away. Government was never to be a burden on our liberties or society. More licensing really is just a tax on your right. What other rights defined by the constitution are you taxed on?