“...Shouldn’t we require all gun owners to pass a gun safety class? If we have to pass a driving test to get a drivers license, why not one for owning a handgun or rifle?..”
Got news for ya there, WilliamReading; NO ONE is going to REQUIRE me to do anything when it comes to exercising my RIGHT.
Who’s this “WE” you’re talking about? You and who else?
This moron had his finger on the trigger, period. Guns don’t “just go off”. He killed his girlfriend because he was stupid and probably being a smartass. Who knows exactly what happened. Either way, he should do some time. As was said earlier, it culls the pack of stupid jackasses. Tragic? Sure. Preventable? Absolutely. Stupid? Yep. Paying for it for the rest of his life, every time he looks in the mirror? Absolutely. Tragic all around. But preventable nonetheless.
My kids have been shooting since they were five. Number of accidental discharges: 0
Don’t know you out here, haven’t seen you post before, but you come on here and post a stupid inflammatory comment like that, well, be prepared for a whole world of invective.
“....To me it is only common sense. Of course others will use the “slippery slope” argument . . . “if they require us to take gun training, then they will take all of our guns away” . .. . That just doesn’t follow. Why doesn’t the US Army just hand out M-16s to the soldiers and let them figure out for themselves how to shoot them? Why does the Army train and test the soldiers?.....”
The “common sense” and “slippery slope” remarks sound very suspiciously like something an agenda-driven a troll would say. Maybe I’m wrong, but your posting that particular article, and making those particular remarks combined with your 5-27-08 signup date, well, let’s just say it stinks a little bit.
“....That just doesn’t follow....”
Well, it absolutely follows, as even a casual perusal of the history of gun control will show that EVERYWHERE an UNOPPOSED State clamped down on civilian gun ownership, registration and confiscation followed - but I suspect you already know this...only an ignorant fool would not take advantage of the wealth of information that the Internet provides on the subject of gun control and “slippery slopes” before posting a comment like that. See Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Che, Hugo Chaevez, Castro, Lenin, Mugabe, Amin, Hussein....all good little Komrades that were out to make society safer by taking away evil guns “for the common good”.
“.....Army...test and train..”
Because, as anyone who has ever been through the Service (especially combat infantry) will tell you, recruits are trained to move, think, act, and fight like a single unit.
Many recruits have NEVER been exposed to firearms before, and have to be trained. At one time in this country, that wasn’t true of the majority of folks, but it is now, thanks to all the brainwashing that the liberal socialists have accomplished with their negative attitude towards my Constitutional, civil, and Basic Human RIGHT.
And just for the record, there’s a whole lot more of “WE” firearm-owning civilians than the “WE” that would try to “require” us to do ANYTHING...a fact which, I’m sure, keeps certain people of a certain political party with a failed ideology awake at nights in perpetual panty-wetting fear...
No, I think you know exactly what you can do with your “common sense” “Slippery slope” stuff...and where you can put it.