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1. Everyone should take and pass a mandatory licensing test
2. If you have a violent criminal background, no guns for you.
3. If you have a recorded history of mental instability, no guns for you.
I think these are reasonable requests. NICS isn't cutting the mustard.
Two of these are already the case. As for #1, perhaps you think we should require the same before being allowed to vote? Before being allowed to speak? Or practice religion?
Those are all Constitutional Rights, and so is the Right to keep and bear arms. It is no less of a Right than freedom of speech, even though you may not prefer see it that way
And if you don't think NICS is cutting it, good. You agree with the NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation that we need to improve the NICS system and do more to encourage states to report criminal and mental health records to the system.
Lying about what? Sorry you are unable to accept what I am writing because it doesn't fit into your own narrative that you want to believe.
You may want to reread the many, many posts where you insulted people who own guns. Other than the two? Posts where you wrote you were not against gun ownership.
I did hear of one - a 9 year old girl who killed the instructor at a shooting range.
Yep, you sure did. And do you know why you heard of that incident? Why it was elevated to the level of national news? Because it was a RARE occurrence. Doesn't happen that often. How many youths shot a gun at that venue and others in the past and exactly nothing happened?
So why are you complaining about something that amounts to a non-issue?
It's easy to go find a single incident and pin point it as the norm, when it is actually something of a freak accident. I can take you to ranges all over this country where young people are shooting and there isn't an incident. I can also take you to places where youth are taking drugs and getting into trouble. You won't find kids who go to a shooting range there.
Yep, you sure did. And do you know why you heard of that incident? Why it was elevated to the level of national news? Because it was a RARE occurrence. Doesn't happen that often. How many youths shot a gun at that venue and others in the past and exactly nothing happened?
So why are you complaining about something that amounts to a non-issue?
Yep. RARE like the subject of this thread.
That was a prime example of stupidity just as this one was.
S H U U U R E, everyone is well trained, it won't, can't happen. But it does. All the time.
Not so nice you consider these incidents as non-issues.
Want to bet we'll be reading about another one of these non-issues again? And sooner than later?
That was a prime example of stupidity just as this one was.
S H U U U R E, everyone is well trained, it won't, can't happen. But it does. All the time.
Not so nice you consider these incidents as non-issues.
Want to bet we'll be reading about another one of these non-issues again? And sooner than later?
What do you think the incident rate is? One in 10? One in a hundred? a thousand? What is the incident rate of being involved in a auto accident? So why don't auto accidents make national attention? Because they are common. Shooting incidents that you are describing are RARE, that's why they get national attention. Not because they are common, but because they are so seldom.
What do you think the incident rate is? One in 10? One in a hundred? a thousand? What is the incident rate of being involved in a auto accident? So why don't auto accidents make national attention? Because they are common. Shooting incidents that you are describing are RARE, that's why they get national attention. Not because they are common, but because they are so seldom.
I don't know what the incident rate is. But it'll happen again. And again. And again.
Hmmm, I even read about a dog shooting his owner when the owner was careless. Couldn't happen? It did.
There are approximately 150 million people in this country today. How many people a year do you figure something like this happens to?
Shouldn't happen to anyone.
BTW, your number is off a bit.
Getting late? Yes.
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