Comment by krapp
4 hours ago
>What the US lacks is the ability to have clean, simple, uniform gun laws across all states AND uniform _enforcement_ of such laws.
Yes. that is what would be unconstitutional. States can have their own gun laws but the Federal government is restrained by the Second Amendment. Mostly it has to abuse the Commerce Clause to justify its ability to regulate guns as interstate commerce.
So, it's a failure of the US ability to implement policy, not a failure of enacted policy to be able to make a difference.
Luckily, it's an Ammedment that is subject to interpretation, change, and/or removal.
Recall that US history has examples of Ammendments being both added and removed, that recently the Federalists saw fruit of a 30 year long campaign to stack the judicial pipeline, and the US landed on the moon.
The country is capable of difficult things, it's a matter of finding the will and making the grind.