Anyone that says different can pound sand.
/johnny
What I want to know is how all you FReepers who have had tragic boating accidents and lost all your guns are going to take them for those “mandatory” inspections?
Responsible gun owners already do many/most of these things either (a) voluntarily or (b) under penalty of state or local law.
“Required classes in gun safety and use as part of purchasing a firearm, with a sliding scale of hours per class determined by the type of firearm being purchased. The more complex the weapon, the longer the class. (So a handgun purchase might be just one hour, but an automatic weapon might be three.)”
And, Nimrod, what if it’s an automatic handgun?
No, odo was in Star Trek: Deep Space 9: Rick Berman's rip-off of J. Michael Straczynski's Babylom 5
3300 innocent babies are butchered each day by Leftists
Nothing at all wrong with a gun safe ~ that way you know where the arms are that you need and that you will be able to get to them, or, I guess you could wear a holster night and day ~ ask your wife eh!
Firearms safety courses should be mandatory in school, along with some range time ~ and that can be handled electronically!
People who know how to handle guns safely have fewer accidents with them. Gun safes make your guns readily available when you need them.
“Reflecting with regret on the casualties the U.S. took in the Spanish-American War, President Roosevelt said: ‘The great body of our citizens shoot less as time goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys and indeed among all classes as well as in the military services, by every means of our power. Thus and not otherwise may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world. The first step in the direction of preparation to avert war, if possible, and to be fit for war, if it should come, is to teach men to shoot.’ “
I have been for this for years as has the NRA.
No amount of gun safety training will prevent a sociopath from using a gun in murder. Or whatever other weapon can be found.
Some of these propositions do go beyond what is just common sense, and enter the realm of intrusiveness.
There is also no discussion whatsoever about what to do about sociopaths and other mentally ill persons who show the signs of being capable of committing such an act long before they ever commit it. Others have been bringing up the emptying of mental hospitals, which is really the conversation that needs to take place. Children who perform unspeakable acts of cruelty on animals are likely to move up to human victims at some point—so why aren’t they committed? Why is there still the fiction that there is a cure for every mental illness? There isn’t—the drugs only mask the symptoms, and sometimes not very well. Neither society nor the mentally ill have been served well by closing the mental hospitals.
Okay, getting off my soapbox now.
His 3000 number is widely accepted except that it counts gang members and innocent victims the same. Also the “children” in that number goes up to age 24 I think.
Mikey is quoting the Children’s Defense Fund? That is a radical Marxist organization. He’s either stupid or a liar.
Too bad we are not all in a cage. Especially the childrun! That would be safest. We can trust the zoo keepers like smart ole Michael to take care of us.
No self defense for limo liberals. Tax ‘em into my shed so Michael can not afford to send out anti-freedom e-mails to his “freinds.”
1-2 I’m all for education of the ignorant in the safe handling of dangerous tools.
The rest, no.
Well for starters, why don’t you break out real children #s when you preface your argument. 3,000 child deaths includes all under 18 gang bangers. If you can’t even start out honestly, I’m pretty sure the rest is shite. Real children (not criminals) killed by guns every year is actually a tiny number. A horrible but very small number.
Childrens’ Defense Fund, having an anti-Second amendment bias, classifies as “children” the teen-agers that die early as a consequence of their participation in the urban gang and drug culture. A sad situation, to be sure,but not a credible argument for restricting the self-defense or recreational firearm needs/desires of the law abiding.
Nothing in the Constitution gives the government the power to demand to inspect a private citizen’s weapons. There’s a more fundamental problem, which is that operating a motor vehicle on public roads is recognized by the law as a privilege, while gun ownership is a right government is bound to respect. The two aren’t comparable.
3000 kids per year? and liberals are saying anything that can save even one life should be done.
then how about the 3,000 kids killed EVERY DAY in the US? wouldn’t you think they would want to stop that?
abortion in the US kills 3,000+ every day... over 1.2m per year
the hypocrisy of the left is mind boogling
Guns are not causing the massacres by mentally ill individuals. That's a healthcare issue and a place the Left failed miserably to deal with.
First, there are already more than 20,000 gun control laws actively on the books today and none of them prevented this tragedy. Second, millions upon million of people in America own guns and 99.9999% of them have never and will never do anything like this.
So, let’s lose the hysteria and analyze the facts - a PERSON did this, NOT a hunk of steel. In Portland, a PERSON killed two people in the mall, NOT a hunk of steel! In Denver, a PERSON shot up the theater, NOT a hunk of steel!!
NONE of these facts will matter to the gun-grabbing nanny-staters, because they focus solely on the gun and nothing else. So, what happens if ALL guns are outlawed and forcibly collected by the feds? Someone bent on committing mass murder may turn to knives, hatchets, chainsaws or machetes. So, we outlaw those. The next person to commit a heinous crime may use a bat, poison, poison gas or a semi-tractor. And the one after that may use a car, a pen or pencil, a rock, his hands . . . . . . so when do we blame the PERSON and NOT the inanimate weapon!???
The fact remains that until the left understands that murdering humans by ANY means including their favorite method, abortion, human life will be valueless and more copycats will come out to exercise their demented mass murder of innocent people.
All of that said, it occurs to me that the gun-grabbers are from the leftist school of complete control. What that means is that if 1 person commits a gun crime then, under the leftist theory of the “collective” and “groupthink”, they believe that ALL gun owners will commit mass murder unless they eliminate guns (good luck with that!). So, the calls for more gun control by the left after these incidents is twofold - eliminate the “balance of power” the Founding Fathers so carefully wove into the Constitution and gain total control over the people.
Another part that affects all of this is the fact that laws, whether gun laws, robbery laws, or whatever, are written solely to affect law-abiding citizens. People who commit crimes are called “outlaws” and criminals because they DON’T adhere to the laws created to control or stop their illegal activities.
So, should the left create additional gun control laws, will it prevent the next gun-related crime? Of course not. Laws only affect those of us who obey them. Those who disregard the law won’t be stopped from committing whatever crime they want to commit.
As a final note, Adam Lanza did not own the guns he used to murder all of the people at Sandy Hook Elementary. They were his mother’s guns and they were all legally purchased and registered. Which begs the question, what will any NEW gun control laws accomplish?
It is worth noting that, back in the 50s and 60s, gun safety training as well as shooting ranges were present in most schools. But, the suggestions ignore the circumstances - Newtown wasn’t about gun safety, it was about a heinous act committed by a demented kid with mental health issues. So, this whole episode isn’t about guns, it’s about protecting the rest of the population from those with mental health issues who MAY do the unthinkable one day.
What sage advice does your committee of know-it-alls have to offer about that!??