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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (30924)2/15/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I'm a gun guy myself, always have been, but I would concede that an awful lot of guns that are bought for self defense end up being used in crimes of passion. The answer, to me, lies in two simple truths:

1. People who are trained to use guns effectively almost never abuse them.

2. A gun in the hands of a person not trained to use it effectively is totally useless for any purpose at all.

Obvious solution: require training and testing before allowing anyone to own and use a gun, same as we do with cars. I think it should be owners, not individual weapons, that are licensed, and that once you are licensed, no central records should be kept of purchases. Meaning that in the unlikely event that there is a conspiracy to take all the guns away, it would be relatively easy to keep a few stashed for essential reasons. Personally, I don't believe that licensing is honestly being considered as a prelude to confiscation. I do think that there are things that can be done to keep guns out of the hands of those likely to abuse them, and that they should be done. What's wrong with forcing gun buyers to keep their weapons locked up at a range until they've put a few hundred rounds through them and shown that they know how to use them?

Looking for the middle ground...

Steve
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