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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Unfortunately sensible, law abiding people can become very unsensible with a drink or three or perhaps something else, but that is hard to predict when the guns are handed out. That tapped you also need a license to drive and that sometimes works out bad.
Anyway - on with the tailgaters.  |
I debated a with my self as to respond, but I was feeling froggy. If the mods want they can axe it as I know it is getting close to the line of political.
Sensible, law abiding people chose not to drink while around guns, they also chose not to drink when they are going to drive.
A license to carry a concealed firearm is harder to get than a license to drive (yet people do both without a license). To get mine I had to get fingerprinted and back ground checked for both criminal activity and mental illness. Oh yea and I had to travel to another state as the permit my state issues is not good in a few places that I like to travel to. It also costs more. Many locals require a proficiency check. My drivers license is good in all 50 states, most other countries honor it as well (Mexico, Canada, Ireland and others I assume). I have to do a bunch of digging around when I travel to insure that my concealed carry permit is honored by the other states I travel to.
The state where I live does not require a permit to carry concealed, yet even without all the background checks, proficiency checks. I feel much safer once I arrive at a shooting range, than on the drive there even though there are many people who I do not know using guns that may be far more powerful than the ones I brought.
Intoxicants keep getting brought up as a reason dislike guns, when in reality the intoxicants have their own issues. Availability of weapons may exacerbate the problems with intoxicants but weapons come in many forms such as
cricket bats,
swords,
cars or
chairs. It is likely in most of these cases, had the victim not been barred the use of arms they would have been able to defend them selves and been around for their loved ones.
Anyway, on with the tailgaters