george burns
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There is literally no required training for the average Joe, to necessitate the carrying of a deadly weapon, which makes little to no sense to me, when you need training to pass a drivers test, which is as dangerous as a gun if you come right down to it.
So what message are we sending when anyone who has no criminal record, and is a citizen, can get a gun with no training, doesn't that send the false message that no training is necessary to operate a weapon, and anyone can do it? I am in no way stating that no training is needed, just the opposite, but our current system doesn't address this at all. Then they wonder what happened when an incident goes haywire and people get killed because they just didn't know the basics, like when does the gun come out?
just hesitation or acting too fast can get you sent away for the rest of your life and just talking about it is a lot different than actually having something happen and getting shot because you didn't respond properly.
Other than it being our right under the Constitution, should there be some sort of proper training or periodic testing, to make sure that people are still in control of their faculty's?
I am a believer in retesting drivers at 70 or 75 years old instead of seeing them plow into convenience stores with their Cadillac's, "like in Florida", on a daily basis. I recently saw a man tie himself up trying to get his little dog into his Caddy, and "wet himself" before getting help and achieving his goal of starting the car. Soon after that his keys were taken away by his kids, but he easily could have killed several people and not even realized it.
What if he also had a weapon?
So what message are we sending when anyone who has no criminal record, and is a citizen, can get a gun with no training, doesn't that send the false message that no training is necessary to operate a weapon, and anyone can do it? I am in no way stating that no training is needed, just the opposite, but our current system doesn't address this at all. Then they wonder what happened when an incident goes haywire and people get killed because they just didn't know the basics, like when does the gun come out?
just hesitation or acting too fast can get you sent away for the rest of your life and just talking about it is a lot different than actually having something happen and getting shot because you didn't respond properly.
Other than it being our right under the Constitution, should there be some sort of proper training or periodic testing, to make sure that people are still in control of their faculty's?
I am a believer in retesting drivers at 70 or 75 years old instead of seeing them plow into convenience stores with their Cadillac's, "like in Florida", on a daily basis. I recently saw a man tie himself up trying to get his little dog into his Caddy, and "wet himself" before getting help and achieving his goal of starting the car. Soon after that his keys were taken away by his kids, but he easily could have killed several people and not even realized it.
What if he also had a weapon?