Please tell me there are some military veterans who support some form of gun control?

There are some military veterans who support some form of gun control. Most would be okay with more extensive background checks and longer waiting periods.

You think there weren't crazy people with guns when the Second Amendment was written? Or criminals who didn't care whether gun crime was illegal? The Founders fully supported the idea that criminals and the insane should be denied access to guns. However, being realists rather than naive buffoons, they knew that such a thing could never be fully and completely accomplished in the real world. They were aware that the best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. You propose, however, to ignore the wisdom of Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and every other Founding Father of this country, believing that if only there were more laws, gun crime would go down. Jefferson, clever fellow that he was, knew otherwise. "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one."

Take that nut job who was taking potshots at the White House with an AK-47 back in the '90's. All it would have taken would have been one armed citizen with a well-aimed double-tap to the dome, and it would have been over, but thanks to the absurd gun laws in D.C., all the little nice people were unarmed and totally at the mercy of the crazy person. Thankfully, someone with a big swinging set of balls tackled the guy as he stopped to reload.

To answer your original question, what do I think of gun control as a combat veteran, here's my idea of gun control:

Steady Aim

Proper Body Position

Steady Breathing

Steady Trigger Squeeze

From the tone of your question, it is clear to me that you are really not looking for an answer, but are simply making a partisan political rant.

I would like to see some proof about what has led you to think that "most" Veterans think what you seem to think they do.

I would hazard a guess that no sane person (veteran or not) believes that insane people should have the right to purchase firearms and ammunition.

As a veteran of several of my Nation's wars (not that it makes a difference in this debate), I believe that background checks are a good thing, that there should be limitations on purchasing of firearms by people who are not capable of responsible firearm ownership due to mental defect, and that a concealed carry permit that is from one State should be valid in all others - just like marriage licenses and drivers licenses. I also believe that there should be no limitation on the capacity of magazines or how much ammunition I want to buy; although there should be penalties if you are storing so much that it becomes a safety hazard and you do nothing to protect your neighbors from accidents.

The Second Amendment is the ultimate law of the land - just like the others, and if things need to be changed, then there should be another amendment to cancel it out legally, not this endless chipping away of firearms ownership rights.

Don't worry about what one veteran says, just because they are a veteran doesn't mean they represent all veterans. Timothy McVeigh and Jeffrey Dahmer were veterans and they don't speak for the rest of us.

The issue I see is so many people think that adding more laws will solve all of our problems with guns. Things aren't that easy. We already prohibit felons, people who beat their spouses, and the mentally ill from buying weapons.

Adam Lanza took the weapons his mother bought to shoot the children at Sandy Hook. The man who shot the firemen after Christmas had his niece buy the weapons for him since he no longer had a legal right to buy one. Don't get me started with Mexico and their gun laws versus what happens with cartel violence.

Do some research and you will see how nobody actually wants the insane to be able to buy guns.

I don't believe that the actions of one or two lunatics should have any influence over this debate, but I also don't see why any civilian really needs to own a firearm... Unless its to protect your lively hood, people like farmers.

A mentally unstable killer, will kill with or without a gun.

Piers Morgan is a knob.

I support the laws already on the books (all 2000 plus of them) that makes it very difficult for a person (anyone) to buy and own a full automatic weapon or makes it illegal for a felon to own one or makes it illegal for a mentally unstable person to own one so I guess I am a person that supports "some form of gun control".

But that is the issue, you do not want gun control, if you did, you'd be asking what can we do to prevent the mentally ill from attaining guns, because the mentally ill have committed ALL of the News worthy "gun crimes" in the past five years, the Black on Black crime (gun deaths) never make the news, Chicago, that has one of the most restrictive gun laws in the US also has one of the highest gun death rates in the US, BUT Black on Black and even our black president doesn't care.

Pretty much and as a Vietnam Vet and ex POW, I wont tell this current Administration anything and I sure wouldnt fight for Obama at all but will stnd tall for America and her people not just her Government and since Obama didnt stop gun sales of automatic weapons and multiple bullet clips after Newton, Conn, its almost useless now as the bstreets are so full of these weapons, no one will listen if they do put a ban on

No Lisa, we generally support the LAWs that are on the books that DENY anyone with proven mental problems from buying a weapon.

Jared Lugner would have been on that list if the DEMOCRAT Sheriff in Gabby Giffords county would have put him on that list.

Well the military members are sworn to protect the country from enemies foreign, or domestic. So they understand the need for an armed civilian populous to protect themselves from a tyrannical government. So, no your not going to find many military members who believe in leaving the American people defenceless.

Your question has zero connection to military, post it in the political trolling section.