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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abajaj11" data-source="post: 1470927" data-attributes="member: 3553">There should be no infringement of the right to keep or bear arms, as the second amendment clearly states. What's wrong with people carrying rifles and shotguns? They do that in Switzerland all the time, in fact families go often to scheuetzenfests on weekends. Rather than snip away at teh second amendment by saying you can carry this, but you can't carry that, and you need to pay so many hundred dollars to carry this, the more sensible approach may be to say:people have the right to keep and bear arms. let's work as a society to make sure that right is exercised safely. With that end in mind, norms should develop of carrying guns safely in public, muzzle discipline, actions open, etc. If the action is closed ,the firearm may be considered loaded and then brandishing it around may be construed as a threat quite legitimately. Training should be provided in all public schools on how firearms should be carried and used. The key is societal norms here, and education, NOT regulations whittling and snipping at the second amendment.We can easily do this as a society. It will only make us freer. In ancient Rome, when a slave was freed, he was given the ability to carry arms, and apparently given a ceremonial sword as a symbol. Perhaps we need to stop thinking less like slaves and more like free people. Just my 2 cents.</blockquote>