BillD,

You state :

1)There are more & more mass shooting, and still many, many individual ones.

If this is your claim, have you adjusted for the increase in population? What is the number of shootings per capita, now and earlier?




2)Guns are bigger, fire faster and more common than 20 years ago (I typed 'tears' I considered leaving it), or 50 years ago, or 200 years ago.

FOr 20 and 50 years ago, I will argue you are incorrect. Guns have been getting smaller and since 1933 fully automatic weapons have been ( effectively) prohibited. For 200 years, please adjust for the population I believe that the number of guns per capita was greater..




3)Claims are made that "laws are on the books...we just need to enforce them", but in a number of states, i.e., Virgina, one can go to a gun show and buy ANYTHING, with little or no I.D., and no waiting. Why would anyone want 5 AK-47s, if not to route them to illegal purposes?


ANYTHING is certainly NOT allowed. AK-47s are fully automatic, and prohibited.




4) The supposed 'right'(interpretation is subjective) in the 2nd Amendment doesn't deal with the situation today.

As are the supposed 'rights' in the rest of the Bill of Rights- if you want to change the Bill of Rights, that is ok- but to ignore it invites the rest of those rights to be ignored in the same manner- freedom of speech or press certainly never included any idea of the internet, where a false statement can go around the world before it is even known to be posted.