Not Libruls, depending on which poll you like between 70 and 80 percent of Americans want stronger background checks including 65% of NRA members.
Should never have let this expire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban
I would support it too if I didn't know that ultimately it will just be used as a launchpad for more and more restrictions, like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._City_of_ChicagoWas only over turned because of the Supreme Court, and trust me they will keep pushing the envelope to see how close they can get to a complete ban. I highly doubt many people in that poll of yours who believe in the right to bear arms have thought this far ahead.
I'd be for better mental health screening. I am for red flag laws connected to mental health and provided it isn't based on one's views and whether liberals think you are an extremist or not. I don't see such a slippery slope there if we do a better job keeping guns out of certified mentally unstable people.
I personally don't think a lot of people should own guns ... I feel a lot more shouldn't than would be screened out by mental health reasons, but to me it's an important enough right that this trumps my feelings about this. I don't really like guns. That's why I don't own any. To me the risks aren't worth ownership and I don't really feel I need one for self defense.
I even told my brother he shouldn't own a gun cause he's not very good at controlling his temper when he gets angry. I will vent verbally when I am really angry. He starts breaking and throwing **** and has done worse than that. I told my whole family he shouldn't have his gun at my parents house and I told him that and said I don't want to be around him with a gun. If you have self control issues, you shouldn't own a gun, IMO. I don't know how you legislate that though without it going too far.
There are adverse costs to the right to bear arms, for sure, but it's a very important right I feel. A lack of an ability of folks to defend themselves has caused more genocide and death than all mass shootings ever by a factor of a hundreds of thousands. Who knows what kind of government we will have in 200 years and how it will behave. Who knows what the world will look like. I think people should have the right to overthrow their government when it goes too far ... that may not be possible without the right to bear arms.