Should All Americans Be Required To Own Guns?

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Today's Washington Post posted an article with an interesting proposal.  Al Home suggests that if Congress can pass a law to require all Americans to purchase health insurance, they should consider passing a law requiring all Americans to own guns.  The article points out that in 2008 more than 250 million guns were owned by U.S. citizens.  When President Obama was elected, there was a surge in gun sale, resulting in approximately 260 million guns in a population of nearly 309 million.  The article concludes that there may be more than 100 million citizens left unprotected against their gun-owning fellow citizens.

The article states:

"Surely everyone can agree that this is an outrage. Moreover, it is an outrage that Congress can easily fix, without months of committee meetings, town halls or tea parties. All that is required is a bipartisan, pro-constitutional bill to extend the Second Amendment's protection of gun ownership to all Americans, whether they like it or not."
This is an interesting idea.  At least the concept of gun ownership is in the Constitution, and I am sure there might be a few Republicans willing to make this a bi-partisan bill!

The article in the Washington Post is a good reminder of how ridiculous it is to require all Americans to purchase health insurance (with the threat of fines and jail time if they do not comply).  Hopefully, Congress is paying attention.

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