Yep. So, which requires harder testing to get, a driver's license or a gun license? And if it's unreasonable to expect that the owner of a firearm can't hit a target at a reasonable distance, can we at least expect the owner to be able to clean the firearm without a self-inflicted wound?
"I am not on anyone's 'side' because nobody is entirely on MY side."
Absolutely correct! It's a harder route to travel, but it's a better one overall. (I freely admit to being too lazy to take that path.)
I can't say, actually, because when *I* got my driver's license it was drop-dead easy, but when my wife had to get hers again (she had, literally, not noticed that it had expired FOUR YEARS AGO and thus had to start the whole process again) it had turned into a nightmare circus.
Never having applied for a firearm myself, I know some areas where it's a matter of filling out a form and waiting a bit, and other areas where it would probably be easier to MAKE the gun than to actually get a license to use it.
Of course, a driver's license should be much harder. A handgun is harder to aim and can't smash through walls, doors, light poles, and so on. The amount of energy in a car is immense -- the kinetic energy of two tons of steel travelling at 60mph is very impressive, and the chemical energy in the tank is worse.
Where I live, thee are no licenses, except for concealed carry, or for the Federally required stuff for automatic weapons and the like.
And given recent Supreme Court rulings, it'll eventually be that way most places.
If I ever take Fay shooting, we'll probably have to have one of use carry the rifles and the other carry the ammo, given that we'd have to go on our bikes. Might even have to lock the cases, and have each other carry the keys.
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(Now, if you wanted to talk politics, or gun control, I might consider being unreasonable, stubborn, and irrational. Maybe.)
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Gun control is when I hit what I aim at.
Politics: "I am not on anyone's 'side' because nobody is entirely on MY side."
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Yep. So, which requires harder testing to get, a driver's license or a gun license? And if it's unreasonable to expect that the owner of a firearm can't hit a target at a reasonable distance, can we at least expect the owner to be able to clean the firearm without a self-inflicted wound?
"I am not on anyone's 'side' because nobody is entirely on MY side."
Absolutely correct! It's a harder route to travel, but it's a better one overall. (I freely admit to being too lazy to take that path.)
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Never having applied for a firearm myself, I know some areas where it's a matter of filling out a form and waiting a bit, and other areas where it would probably be easier to MAKE the gun than to actually get a license to use it.
Of course, a driver's license should be much harder. A handgun is harder to aim and can't smash through walls, doors, light poles, and so on. The amount of energy in a car is immense -- the kinetic energy of two tons of steel travelling at 60mph is very impressive, and the chemical energy in the tank is worse.
By comparison, handguns are harmless.
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And given recent Supreme Court rulings, it'll eventually be that way most places.
If I ever take Fay shooting, we'll probably have to have one of use carry the rifles and the other carry the ammo, given that we'd have to go on our bikes. Might even have to lock the cases, and have each other carry the keys.