A Modest Proposal for Gun Safety

 

I’d like to offer a modest proposal to address the issues of mass shootings and the need for gun safety, a solution that should satisfy the originalist members of the Supreme Court and true advocates of the Second Amendment.
The federal government should agree to provide to every family unit in America such arms as are consistent with the understanding of the framers of the Constitution, namely a muzzle-loading,single-shot long gun or pistol.
The provision of these weapons should be conditioned upon the required surrender of any weaponry not encompassed by the vision of the framers. Further, the person in each family responsible for keeping and bearing the weapons must agree to enlist in a Militia where the handling and use of the arms may be well regulated in order to insure the security of a free State.