Time For A No Buy List For Guns ???

This op-ed in The New York Times suggests we should treat gun rights like we treat privacy rights - by arbitrarily taking them away:

The massacre in Florida is a horrifying reminder that terrorists don’t need airplanes to kill scores of people: All they need are commonplace firearms. Gun-control groups are already issuing calls to do more to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, while those against stricter gun laws say we shouldn’t deny people their constitutional rights on the basis of mere suspicion.

You can read the rest @
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/opinion/time-for-a-no-buy-list-on-guns.html

I disagree.

FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION, OR AMEND IT. There is no in-between.

And I stick with my original argument - the problem is not guns per se ... the problem is the Internet and what it has done to our culture:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-all-mass-shootings.html

But once again, the "impediment" to fixing that is our First Amendment free speech rights. Go figure.

Anyway, here is my suggested constitutional amendment:

Article XXVIII
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of firearms and weapons of war within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for any purpose other than law enforcement and the waging of war specifically authorized by Congress is hereby prohibited.

Good luck getting it passed.

And good luck trying to enforce it. We tried something like this once which was called "prohibition", and you all know how that worked out.