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Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd
I believe in the intent of the founding fathers to ensure that the general public has the ability to own a firearm to aide in and protect life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We do need restrictions on gun ownership like never before. Back in the late 1700's the nuts were locked up in asylums, the criminals were in stocks, hung, or cast into terrible prisons where they did not often last long, black people were second class citizens or owned as slaves, people believed in one God and for the most part respected each other.
Fast forward to today and we have nutty people walking around in a fog of medication, children that are also medicated to calm them down and make them pay attention, felons of violent crimes that are out on parole, would be terrorists that are directed to kill because their god tells them to and a populace that in many ways is in it for themselves and would rather step on someones neck then help them to stand and we wonder why we need so many laws.
I think most sane people would want to keep guns out of the hands of the types of people listed above.
That is where a license comes into play. In many cases to obtain that gun license one has to take a safety class and then be given the approval of their police chief after an extensive background check.
Society has grown to a point that would have the founding fathers shaking their heads at how far their beloved experiment in democracy has fallen.
There are just some people that should not be allowed to walk among us and certainly never to legally own a gun .
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"That is where a license comes into play. In many cases to obtain that gun license one has to take a safety class and then be given the approval of their police chief after an extensive background check."
Under the Constitution you do NOT need a license to exercise ANY of the RIGHTS guaranteed under the Constitution.
MOTE people die in swimming pools then rifles.
MORE people die via a blunt instruments like a baseball bat then rifles.
Why don't you need a license to own any of those?
Should a safety class be required to own a pool or a baseball bat?
How about a bicycle?
How about using a power saw. They can be very dangerous.
Have we become so stupid that we NEED a safety class for EVERYTHING?
What ever happened to "COMMON SENSE"
Our government has become so overbearing that the safety book you get when you buy a new car is THICKER then the Users manual ON HOW TO OPERATE IT.
We have to put a sticker on the lawn mower saying "DO NOT PUT HANDS UNDER THE MOWER WHEN T IS RUNNING"
A gun is just like any other piece of machinery. If you can'y figure how to use it safely then you shouldn't buy it.
I have no problem wih doing a xcrimonal background check.
Criminals should NOT be allowed to buy guns.
Then again we ALL Know that criminals do NOT go through the background check process to start with and they get them anyway, so who are we REALLY affecting?
When a policeman pulls you over for having a taillight out, within MINUETS he KNOWS your life's criminal history.
"We do need restrictions on gun ownership like never before."
NOT as long as we have a 2nd amendment.
"The RIGHT of the PEOPLE to KEEP and BEAR ARMS shall NOT be INFRINGED"
If you want to do something change the 2nd amendment and good luck with that!
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