Said "idiots" are gun-shy because of real experience. Government gun laws easily create a situation forcing people to live in rough neighborhoods where there are plenty of illegal guns, the police avoid the area for anything but the most serious crimes, and families are holed up, at the mercy of drug addled thugs. DC was a great example of this.
Secondly, giving the government records of every gun ownership tends to go badly when the government becomes totalitarian, so history minded gun owners are uneasy with that, but we make concessions on that for first sale.
I think gun owners are irrational on avoiding responsibility for control of the firearms they have, mandatory gun safe ownership, etc., but very rational on many of their current objections. The pro gun control advocates do not take the gun owner's concerns in mind when drafting the legislations, so little common ground is seen.
Secondly, giving the government records of every gun ownership tends to go badly when the government becomes totalitarian, so history minded gun owners are uneasy with that, but we make concessions on that for first sale.
I think gun owners are irrational on avoiding responsibility for control of the firearms they have, mandatory gun safe ownership, etc., but very rational on many of their current objections. The pro gun control advocates do not take the gun owner's concerns in mind when drafting the legislations, so little common ground is seen.
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