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originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: greencmp
Well, if you want to go that route, I'd say anyone wanting a gun should have to have a gun permit showing they've completed a safety course and knows how to properly handle a firearm and store it correctly. The same way you have to have a license to drive a car.
At that point no waiting period would be needed for either.
Gun insurance might be something to consider too like car insurance. That way if you accidentally shoot someone you're covered and so is the victim.
originally posted by: greencmp
a reply to: mOjOm
I think there should be a 1 year waiting period on vehicle purchases just so people don't get the idea that they can just buy an automobile and drive it around willy nilly.
After all, someone could just buy a truck and smash into a gas station. This will give people the time it takes to not smash automobiles into gas stations.
Common sense really.
originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul
Let's see - what if car control laws were applied to guns??
Tests, licences, taxes, registration, safety criteria in the design.....
What if gun control laws were applied to cars:
no tests, no licences (unless you want to carry one concealed!! ), maybe a 10 day wait in california,
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: xuenchen
Well, the cars will be driving themselves pretty soon. Until then we can just install breathalyzers in every vehicle to guard against that.
Safety drinking classes and permits wouldn't work since being responsible goes out the window when you're drunk. Hell, that's half the reason people get drunk in the first place.
originally posted by: greencmp
Why don't we just make alcohol illegal?
originally posted by: mOjOm
originally posted by: greencmp
Why don't we just make alcohol illegal?
Now you're just talking crazy talk.
Besides, we all know where that went the last time we tried that and we don't want to go there again.
The idea of never being able to have a drink makes me want to go get a gun and shoot someone!!
Besides what else other than bottles and cans are we supposed to use when we're out shooting target practice???
originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
Because of course that would be constitutional.......cough and cough and cough
Gotta love how free and careless you are with constitutionality when it comes to defending YOUR idea of constitutionality!!
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order, which had led to the murder of a woman's three children by her estranged husband
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: greencmp
Oh yah. I wasn't serious about all that stuff I was saying. Except for the part about emptying bottles/cans to shoot at. Actual targets only come out for special occasions.
Although some ideas seem interesting. Liability insurance might be a good idea. Although it would be difficult in some situations.
As for the wait period, I think that could be removed completely if there was a way to verify that someone had completed a safety course. Because that is really the main concern. A guns purpose is to be a deadly weapon. So making sure someone knows what they're doing before owning one is just a good idea. Once that's done I don't see a problem.
I think a one time gun safety course and a simple gun registration should be all that's needed. Those are the basics just for safety.
Although before any such thing takes place I'd also remove a ton of useless registrations and permits that we don't need to allow room for this one.
originally posted by: Sunwolf
You have never bought a handgun in California,have you?