Gun Control

[Pyrrho]

Can I give you guys some more propaganda in favor of Portugal?

Around here, you need a permit to own a weapon.
And, on top of that, you need a special permit to carry it out of your property, in public.

I don't know what's required to get such permits, but I'm sure it involves, at least, a psych evaluation and background check.

To my mind, they are similar to driving permits, as both a gun and a car (hmmm, 3 letter words) can be used to kill people.
Around here, in order to get a driver's permit, you need to take, at least, 30 classes on the law about driving - what the signs mean, when to use certain lights, etc... and 30 driving classes with a qualified instructor.
Even so, we find many road warriors around.

You Portuguese are a bunch of sissies!  Here in American we give almost every idiot a license to drive, and they don't need to take any classes first.  All they have to do is take an easy multiple-choice written test, followed by an easy driving test.  And if they fail, they can try again and again and again and...  Of course, the exact details of the requirements vary by state, but I think this is pretty much the way it is in all of them.  The fact that people kill each other with their cars is not a deterrent for us.  Killing each other helps keep the population in check, and helps weed out the really stupid, as you can occasionally read about some moron killing himself with his own car, in a single car accident.   And so we also let nearly every idiot have a gun as well.  The fact that people kill each other with their guns is not a deterrent for us.  Killing each other just helps keep the population in check, and helps weed out the really stupid, as you can occasionally read about some moron shooting and killing himself with his own gun.  You don't get that happening so much in Portugal because you keep guns out of the hands of most morons.

So, here in America, having a gun is similar to having a car, in that almost anyone can have either one, except that you don't need a license for a gun, depending on where in America (the commie-influenced jurisdictions require licenses) and the type of gun we are talking about.  See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_license

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politi...ted_States


As I stated earlier to robvalue, if you are going to advocate sanity and reason, there is no place for you here.