Guns? Bombs? [View all]
The Orlando massacre generated many gun-related comments here at DU. No surprise there, of course.
And it got me thinking. I personally would favor a ban of all semi-automatic weapons, period. I would keep revolvers, breech-loading long guns, and bolt-action rifles legal. I think a semi-auto ban would pass judicial muster, as the Second Amendment does contain the phrase "well-regulated".
Getting such a ban passed would be very difficult, I know.
But that's not the main topic of my post. Let's suppose for a moment that my proposal became law, and semi-autos became very difficult to obtain. What then would prevent a terrorist from just switching over to homemade bombs? As we saw from the Boston Marathon bombing, such devices can be quite lethal.
Maybe this post is just rambling, as I don't have a solution to the bomb problem.
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