Common Sense

"Regarding Second Amendment rights, I think we should have symmetry with First Amendment rights in the legal protections/exceptions to those rights - that is, we protect free speech, freedom of worship, and free association, with lots of BUT's - you're not allowed to incite a stampede by shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater, you can be sued for libel or slander (despite your free speech), we can prohibit human sacrifices or smoking peyote even as part of religious services (despite your free exercise of religion rights), and we can arrest you for participating in a criminal conspiracy (despite your right to free association). These seem like reasonable boundaries for First Amendment rights, minimally intrusive for most reasonable people, and I think we could tolerate a similar level of boundaries for Second Amendment rights."