Topic #10: Gun Control

Please consider the following potential leading questions for a conversation to be launched on August 8:

#1: Assuming that no “freedom” is without “limits,” what “reasonable limits” should be placed on the freedom to purchase guns and ammunition?

#2: Why should any U. S. citizen be allowed to purchase an assault weapon?

#3: What did our Founding Fathers intend when they wrote the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” into the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, and how should that be applicable, or not, today?

#4: How can a free society protect itself from a twisted mind?

#5: What is it about our political culture that makes if highly unlikely that the massacre in Aurora will lead to any politically viable proposals for gun control legislation?  Is there any way to begin to address that issue?