Awesome, so we agree that gun ownership should be limited to people who are over the age of 18, have demonstrated that they are capable of being responsible with a firearm, and have not committed a violent felony.

You didn’t mention it, but I’m going to assume you agree that private citizens shouldn’t be allowed to bring firearms into police stations, courthouses, and military bases as well.

Can you explain to me why those restrictions are “good”, but any further restriction on where a person can bring a gun are “bad”? Is our country really so failed that it will collapse if we don’t let kids leave guns in their cars during school hours?

If they’re over 18, no violent felonies, not on drugs…then no.

So just to clarify, telling kids that they cannot leave a rifle unattended in their vehicle during school hours is an affront to liberty?

How do you feel about the fact that firearms are already prohibited in jails, courthouses, airports, police stations, national forests, military bases, and post offices?

Do you believe there should be any limit on who should be allowed to carry a weapon, what kind of weapon they can carry, and where?

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams

Sure, I cannot shout “Fire” in a crowded theatre if there is no fire present. My freedom of speech is being curtailed in the interest of public safety.

If I own a newspaper, I cannot print false information about you and make a call for violence. My freedom of the press is being curtailed in the name of public safety.

If I follow a religion that demands human sacrifice, I am prohibited from sacrificing people on my front lawn. My freedom of religion is being curtailed in the name of public safety.

You enjoy freedom from being trampled in a panicked theatre, freedom from libel, and freedom from being murdered by a cult because we, as a society, have agreed that we have a responsibility to protect our neighbors.

Part of the obligation of living in a functioning society is a social contract to protect the freedoms and safety of your neighbors. If you don’t want to participate in modern society anymore, you’re definitely welcome to move out in the woods by yourself and do whatever you want.

Until then, don’t be a hypocrite. Demanding other people sacrifice their freedom to protect you while simultaneously refusing to sacrifice your freedom to protect others is dumb.

And this is why our country is failing.

“…but I cannot shout “Fire” in a crowded theatre.”

Absolutely, you can…if there is indeed a fire within the theater.

You can submit your God given, Constitutionally PROTECTED rights all you please, but I will not accept my rights being “curtailed” at all. The government, any government, doesn’t have the authority, no matter what the Supreme Court says…after all, they are the 3rd branch of government from whom our rights are protected FROM.