If the Second Amendment were repealed, what would happen to responsible gun owners?

Question

I'm not making an argument. I really want to know what the first steps would be.

Answer 1

Then only outlaws, the military, law enforcement officials and the wealthy and well connected political elite will still possess firearms.

EDIT: As for eventually outlawing the private ownership of firearms it's already begun. A while back the Los Angeles Times (a very liberal newspaper) referred to a sharp increase in drive by shootings in one neighborhood as due to a war between rival and "HISTORICAL" street gangs. They went on a bit about each gang's histories dating back to the Zoot Suit riots during the early 1940's.

Note Times reporters didn't call the members vicious or violent but historical... as in we're not going to get rid of them because that would be racist and unconstitutional.

The vast majority of gun laws are useless, we've got over 20 thousand of them. They're useless because criminals being lawless by nature don't give a rat's butt about the law. The only way to really deal with armed gang bangers and the like is to unfortunately resort to tactics which the ALCU has branded Gestapo like.

I don't see anything wrong with the cops going into gang infested neighborhoods and having weapon checkpoints like they do for drunk drivers, but that'll never happen. If you can't have checkpoints looking for unlicensed and uninsured drivers because the ACLU said it's all about racial profiling you'll never for checkpoints for weapons, unless of course they're finally outlawed.

Eventually the people will get fed up with all the gun violence and begin voting for more and more incremental restrictions. Finally the only private citizens who will be allowed to own firearms will be those in law enforcement, the wealthy politically connected and maybe, just maybe owners of ranches in rural areas who can justify it.

Answer 2

There would be a huge stink, but in the end it would make no difference. This is an extremely important point of US legal thinking: the Bill of Rights does not give us any rights.

We have a right to be armed. It's innate and cannot be taken away by a legitimate government. The Second Amendment merely recognizes that the right exists. The argument between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists was not over whether we should have the rights to speech, arms, habeus corpus, etc., but over whether those rights were so self-obvious as to require no special protection or whether a future government would require such overt restraint. Our founders would be horrified to think that we have forgotten that.

Answer 3

Its important to understand that even if such a thing were to happen, that does not necessarily mean that congress will pass laws banning arms all together. It would all depend upon the language of the Amendment which would repeal the second Amendment. If it is worded in such a way as to say that arms are now banned, well then they would be banned and there would be a systematic retreival of all licensed guns. If however the Amendment simply states something to the effect that congress has the right to entirely restrict access to arms, then it leaves an open window. This is also most likely. What this would do is allow Congress to regulate armaments more directly, perhaps restricting it. But it is possible that it could not lead to an all out ban either.

Answer 4

I, for one, would become a criminal. There is NO way I'm giving up my guns.

Answer 5

American Revolution II. The first step would be to assemble an army so we could take over the government and restore freedom.

Answer 6

Turn law abiding citizen into felons overnight. They figure they do not have enough crime so they will make crime themselves....got to love the Democrates

Answer 7

Nobody has proposed an amendment against the second amendment to repeal it and nobody will.  This is a pointless argument.

Answer 8

Same thing the international socialists call firearm owners today,  they'd still all be labeled irresponsible firearm owners.

Answer 9

That depends on the people. To be perfectly honest (I'm REALLY not trying to get into some messed up debate about our politics recently) I'm surprised that the people have laid down and accepted as much as they have from the government, which leads me to believe that there may be a smaller percentage of the people that I would have previously thought that would fight such a decision.

We have the right to keep and bear arms for 2 basic reasons (and I am NOT talking about the historical significance of the decision and amendment).

1. To provide support to our government and military should the country ever be overrun or   should a war ever be fought on our own soil. The people have, not only the right, but the responsibility to stand and fight to defend our freedom.

2. To protect our way of life should an elected official or usurper ever decide to turn the military on the people for any unlawful reason. Again, we not only have the right, but the responsibility to fight back to regain control of the government to maintain what is meant to be, as Lincoln said, a "government of the people, by the people, for the people" which speaks not only to our method of electing officials and choosing the way our system works, but also to maintaining the level of freedom that we enjoy.

To answer your question as simply as possible... What WILL happen? I don't know. What SHOULD happen? Noncompliance, at least... Outright rebellion and possibly war, at most.

Why do I believe this? No, I'm not some freak extremist who is sitting on a stockpile of assault rifles, and in fact I don't even own a gun anymore. Even so, I believe in this idea very simply because I don't believe that people have progressed far enough just yet that we no longer have to fear the government taking away or attempting to take away our rights. If you need proof, just look at the current administration. How many of our rights and freedoms have been lost to the idea of security and safety when all these decisions led to haphazard decisions, horrendous mistakes and missteps, and giving a huge 'W' to the terrorists, who's greatest victory comes in changing our way of life.

Sorry about that... I'm done preaching now...