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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (1990)10/10/2000 1:06:48 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
I'm not so sure you need new laws. Or more accurately - what we need is a review of the tens of thousands of pages of gun law on the books and perform a triage. Sensible laws (such as regulating firearm assault, negligent discharge or storage, yadda yadda) should be kept and cleaned up.
Dumb-ass laws (such as gun bans, carry bans, "assault weapon" horseshit) should be terminated with extreme prejudice, heh heh.

A tier system could be generated - the broadest tier is simple ownership. The intermediate tier is ownership/operation, say for hunting, range use and simple plinking. The highest tier is the concealed-carry crowd. Obviously each tier would require different levels of licensing, qualification, whatever.

BUT I posit that the State should treat all applicants for these three tiers as eligible unless shown otherwise. Right now there is a situation where a police chief can deny a license to carry "because he says so". This should be changed.

I am all in favor of wisely regulating the operational aspects of firearm ownership. But there should be no impediment to my owning a belt-fed machine gun or even a B-2 bomber, assuming I duly license it with Federal and local authorities.

I'll bet even Bill Gates couldn't afford the registration fee on the "special munitions package" available as option 88-L on the basic B-2 bomber package. heh heh
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