John Regalado

We have to accept a certain amount of

gun deaths as the price that we pay for the Second Amendment.

And obviously, people have kind of revisited this quote from him in light of his death.

And, you know, it's terrible what happened to him.

In no way should he be punished for having this opinion and then have to face gun violence.

But I'm curious what, you know, you think of the argument that he made when he said that.

Yeah.

But what I hear coming from you is you're saying, you know, we should have the freedom to bear arms.

We don't need to infringe on the Second Amendment, the core idea there.

But if we have to put up a lot more measures to make it harder to access a gun, especially right when you turn 18 and maybe the amount of guns you can have.

what kind of gun you can have, what requirements you need to demonstrate, or what kind of credentials you need to acquire to own those.

Those are all things we could tinker with just so that we know that

People who use the Second Amendment properly are people who have been vetted to some degree.

And people who are risky with mental health disorders or things like that, there's some measure in place to flag that, to identify that, so that those people don't have access.

That's kind of what I hear from you.

Well, I appreciate you sharing your perspective and Krista, thanks for coming back on to revisit Surrounded and thank you for just jumping into the arena in the first place.

I thought it was very brave and awesome to see you go face to face with potentially a future lawmaker.

So good work.

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