[coloradan]

Proving, in person, that you are a responsible law abiding adult citizen before you can purchase a firearm does not, IMO, violated the Constitution and is, indeed, a worthy aim.

Should one also have to prove he is a "responsible law abiding adult citizen" before being allowed to speak, worship, assemble, remain silent, be free from unreasonable searches, or from cruel and unusual punishements?

That being said, it would have done nothing to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, Sirhan-Sirhan or James Earl Ray.

If you admit such laws won't stop these sorts of things, then what is it you are attempting to accomplish by supporting them anyway?

[jonascord]

This clown is a 'if-it-feels-good' type, who is not real sure that everyone is entitled to defend themselves. I think only people who can draw a graph of a quadradic equation should be allowed to vote. Seems reasonable to me. Each prospective voter is given a computer generated equation, and a piece of paper. Three tries of entering either of the answers, and the curtain opens and a horn goes off, announcing to the world that another liberal has failed...

[eddie willers]

Do you think a child should be able to walk into Wal-Mart (alone) and purchase a sidearm?
Should an Amazon.com computer ship out an order for a high-powered rifle to any address?

Any rational, adult non-felon shall not have his or her right to keep and bear arms infringed in any manner.

Proving that you are the person you claim to be (with no record of the transaction required to kept on any file or computer) is not unreasonable.

Will it do much good?
I doubt it.

About a month before Whitman's Texas Tower adventure, Richard Speck strangled 8 nurses in Chicago.

But neither do I see it doing any harm.

If you have a convincing arguement otherwise, or can show a violation of the 2nd Amendment, I'm all ears.

[budwiesest]

Should one also have to prove he is a "responsible law abiding adult citizen" before being allowed to speak, worship, assemble, remain silent, be free from unreasonable searches, or from cruel and unusual punishements?

Sweet. This reply's gotta a hemi.

[PatrioticAmerican]

#5 - Dito!

Maybe its the high altitude and thin, clean, air that helps us to think so clearly?