Do I Stand Alone: on Gun Control


Gun responsibility goes with gun rights

The Second Amendment grants us the freedom to possess and use firearms-and that’s about the part where most people stop reading-but it goes on to say that it rants us that right because of a responsibility. To me, that means we are entrusted with using our firearms safely, for the protection of ourselves and others. I’m no advocate of gun control, but I do think in recent years we’ve made way too much noise on the “rights” side of the equation, and not enough on the “responsibility” side. [But] forcing people to register their firearms goes against the intent of the Second Amendment.

A certain amount of gun control is fine. I don’t want the average citizen walking around the streets carrying machine guns. I agree that gun use should be controlled, but I don’t believe the government should be the one doing the controlling. I think control is the gun owner’s responsibility. But the ban on assault weapons was a stupid piece of legislation. It banned guns for simply looking like machine guns.

Source: Do I Stand Alone, by Jesse Ventura, p.112-14 Jul 2, 2000

  • The above quotations are from Do I Stand Alone?
    Going to the Mat Against Political Pawns and Media Jackals
    by Jesse Ventura, Julie Mooney.
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Pres.Barack Obama(IL)
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Green: Dr.Jill Stein(MA)
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