Claim: Violent felons should not be allowed to buy or own firearms, but [sometimes implied] there’s nothing we can do about people who haven’t been convicted of such a crime.
This is an attempt to sound reasonable (sometimes while engaging in a “the real problem is” distraction) but excludes the government’s ability to bar people who make threats of violence or who have a history of un-prosecuted violence from owning or operating potentially dangerous tools (e.g. airplanes, cars) not protected by an archaic Constitutional amendment.
In the case of firearms, for example, a domestic restraining order should be enough to bar an individual from purchasing one.
However, ammosexuals (and those who pander to them, like SCOTUS Justices Alito and Thomas) would disagree.
