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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Negotiating a gun control deal with anti gun people works like this:
"We take what we can get today and will come back for the rest later".
As long as you have ammo any one can build some sort of zip gun with stuff from any local hardware store and it's perfectly legal as long as you don't sell it and are not a prohibited person.
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I'm very liberty-minded. That said, it undermines gun rights when these high-profile school shootings by children are seemingly commonplace. Whenever someone uses the "think about the children" argument, all reason goes out the window.
We require people to pass a written and skills test to drive vehicles because they are extremely dangerous when used improperly. Likewise, I find it reasonable to require the same for first time gun owners. Perhaps a portion of the very reasonably priced licensing fee should also go towards a trigger lock. The owner could use it or not. Ideally firearms would be stored in a combination safe.
That won't prevent bad people from behaving badly, but sends the message that we take gun ownership seriously. Who knows if this would significantly reduce the number of kids that accidentally shoot themselves, purposely kill themselves, or purposely kill others, but it seems to me our streets are safer by requiring a certain skill level to drive. Otherwise, we would just get rid of the DMV altogether.
Regarding people always being able to produce their own weapons; that's true, but most people are lazy. If they have to go through some extra effort then they probably won't do it.
I've been tempted to invest in firearms before since it seems like prices would be easier to predict than the stock market. When nobody is talking about guns, you buy. When people are talking about gun control, sell.
Reminds me of this- Warning, there is an F-bomb dropped here.