crumas2 said:
Not a bad idea. We license people to drive 3000 pound automobiles, why not make sure they have the mental stability and training to safely handle a firearm? Very good post. |
Thanks. And this doesn't mean forbidding guns like some lobbies try to make believe, I agree that sane and sound people should be allowed, after the necessary training, to own weapons without the enormous difficulties created for examples here in Italy for weapons for self-defence (those for sport and hunting are allowed a lot easier and, judging from the share of family or neighbourhood killings committed with hunting rifles compared to other weapons, without the necessary psychiatric tests). I understand that if even in a relatively small country like mine, people living in the country and far from police stations are at high risk of becoming prey of armed robbers, and in the richest regions it happens far too often, in a vast country like USA the problem can be even more serious. I'm against extremism, total deregulation is dangerous, total prohibitionism is a limitation of freedom and the state couldn't grant the necessary protection to people in some circumstances (and crooks could find weapons anyway, while honest people would remain defenceless), so the reasonable solution is reasonable regulation.
