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What do you define as reasonable restrictions for the second amendment?

What do you define as reasonable restrictions for the second amendment?

  • Fire arms/weapons registrations

    Votes: 14 58.3%

  • Waiting Periods.

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • Laws governing how firearms are to be stored.

    Votes: 9 37.5%

  • Firearms/weapon class requirement.

    Votes: 9 37.5%

  • Convicted felons and certified crazy people permanently banned from firearms/weapon ownership.

    Votes: 16 66.7%

  • Convicted felons and certified crazy people temporarily banned from firearms/weapon ownership

    Votes: 12 50.0%

  • Age minimum requirement to buy firearms/weapons(please specify)

    Votes: 20 83.3%

  • Firearm magazine size restrictions(please specify)

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • ban on certain firearms/weapons (please specify)

    Votes: 14 58.3%

  • other(please specify)

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Total voters
    24
Goobieman said:
That's because, to most, "reasnoable" means "what I think is a good idea".
There is rarely any sort of objective standard to quantify this, and so "a good idea" is usually very subjective and almost always boils doen to "how I think it should be".

That's why I said that for a restriction be "reasonable" it had to meet two standards -- actually have some positive effect on gun violence and not violate the constitution -- else it is useless and/or unconstitutional; a useless and/or unconstitutional restriction could not, objectively, be held as "reasonable".
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Strict scrutiny.

Must serve a compelling government interest (as in, society pretty could not function without it), and the restriction must be narrowly tailored to serve that interest and do nothing further.
 
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