When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, firing a gun took a few minutes to pull off. You fired, put in the wadding, poured in the gun powder, dropped in the bullet, and tamped it down before you could fire again. Could the Founding Fathers have foreseen a semi-automatic or an AK-47? In those days, most people lived in rural areas and hunted in order to eat. Could they have foreseen a nation where 95% of the population lives on 5% of the land?
There are very real differences between hunting rifles and automatic weapons, and between rural and urban environments. Local government needs to be able to take these differences into account and devise laws to suit the needs of their citizens.
Mr. Blackwell's nitpicking comments are those of a rabid partisan, who like the rest of the Right, is terrified of Barak Obama.
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