(November 1, 2020 at 4:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Sigh.....(October 31, 2020 at 10:01 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: How many times do you have to ask a law abiding person "are you obeying the law?" before the question just becomes stupidly redundant? What does asking the same question over and over accomplish?
I'm not sure I understand the questions. It isn't about repeatedly quizzing someone, it's about someone's actions and situations. Suppose Joe has been a law abiding gun owner for, I dunno, 20 years, and is then convicted of rape with violence. I think that should disqualify him from being a gun owner. Or say he's never convicted of anything, but develops severe dementia to the point where he can't recognize his own family members. He probably shouldn't be armed. Or imagine he leaves children alone with a loaded pistol and one child kills the other (much like what happened in Georgia fairly recently) - at the very least, Joe shouldn't be allowed to own guns.
How would standards like these damage YOUR gun ownership rights, or the rights of millions and millions of firearms owners who DON'T commit serious crimes, who are NOT a danger to other people, or who DO properly secure their weapons?
Boru
Why should a law abiding gun owner have to go through the same rigamarole every time they buy a gun? Why all the goofy rules about barrel length, magazine capacity, and folding stocks? Why the restrictions on sound supressors? (That's a courtesy issue)
If a person isn't the problem - what is the point of restricting them?
Aren't the bad guys the problem?