“A sensible, mature society recognizes that extreme, destructive positions in the name of constitutional absolutism is just another form of fundamentalism,” bostonglobe.com opines, “it seeks to prevent even the consideration of reasonable, responsive policies to address national problems by declaring them preemptively out of line. Would a better ban on semiautomatic assault weapons reduce the nation’s overall amount of violent crime? Research suggests not, but it would clearly reduce the violence of some crimes, particularly mass shootings like those in Newtown and Orlando.” Seeing aside what The Globe reckons is a “better” assault weapons ban (not specified) and the fact that they’re recommending a policy that they admit wouldn’t necessarily reduce mass shootings, are you a gun rights fundamentalist? I mean, do you believe that the Second Amendment’s admonition that “the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” means that “the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”?
