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Federal law: You have to be 18 to buy a firearm.if you keep your car in your house you dont need one
Dude, you can't even rent a car without a driver's license, let alone buy one.
Ultimately we have a choice - who should decide if a seventeen-year old by can buy an AK-47 - him alone, or him and a police psychiatrist?
By all means say him alone if you can accept the inevitable Colombines and Virginia Tech's, but I prefer the latter system and I feel safer for it.
That is a business transaction where the company requires you to have a liscense. Again, where is your consitutional right to a car?
When it comes to rights the burden is on the state to infringe on it, and the off chance a 17 year old (actually its 18 in most states to legally own a firearm)....
if you keep your car in your house you dont need one
Dude, you can't even rent a car without a driver's license, let alone buy one.
Ultimately we have a choice - who should decide if a seventeen-year old by can buy an AK-47 - him alone, or him and a police psychiatrist?
By all means say him alone if you can accept the inevitable Colombines and Virginia Tech's, but I prefer the latter system and I feel safer for it.
That is a business transaction where the company requires you to have a liscense. Again, where is your consitutional right to a car?
When it comes to rights the burden is on the state to infringe on it, and the off chance a 17 year old (actually its 18 in most states to legally own a firearm) is not enough of a burden to let the police decide who gets to exercise a right and who doesnt. That is the domian of the courts, and only in the execution of punishment from crimes, or legal ajudication of insanity.
Places with the strictest gun laws have the highest crime rate.
Dude, you can't even rent a car without a driver's license, let alone buy one.
Ultimately we have a choice - who should decide if a seventeen-year old by can buy an AK-47 - him alone, or him and a police psychiatrist?
By all means say him alone if you can accept the inevitable Colombines and Virginia Tech's, but I prefer the latter system and I feel safer for it.
That is a business transaction where the company requires you to have a liscense. Again, where is your consitutional right to a car?
When it comes to rights the burden is on the state to infringe on it, and the off chance a 17 year old (actually its 18 in most states to legally own a firearm) is not enough of a burden to let the police decide who gets to exercise a right and who doesnt. That is the domian of the courts, and only in the execution of punishment from crimes, or legal ajudication of insanity.
BTW, as far as I know you do not need a license to purchase a vehicle. You also don't need one to operate it on private roads.
That is a business transaction where the company requires you to have a liscense. Again, where is your consitutional right to a car?
When it comes to rights the burden is on the state to infringe on it, and the off chance a 17 year old (actually its 18 in most states to legally own a firearm) is not enough of a burden to let the police decide who gets to exercise a right and who doesnt. That is the domian of the courts, and only in the execution of punishment from crimes, or legal ajudication of insanity.
BTW, as far as I know you do not need a license to purchase a vehicle. You also don't need one to operate it on private roads.
Licensing, training, insurance, driving laws - all should be banned and it should be a free for all out there on the roads.
cuz the rw's say the Constitution sez so.
Propose a law that would "ensure the mentally ill could not easily acquire weapons" or "at risk groups such as teenagers could not aquire weapons"
I'd be delighted to.
This suggestion is part of a proposed EU law.
Basically, anyone who wants to apply for a gun license attends a 30-minute interview with a police psychiatrist, who also has access to their medical history. If the police are concerned about the person's motives or mental balance - they can not get a gun license.
Also, everyone has to attend a gun safety course over something like 10 x 90 minute sessions with a registered gun club. The gun club can fail the person if they consider the person constitutes a threat to public safety - i.e. if they joke about killing people. No safety certificate = no gun sales.
This is all quick, easy and will make a massive difference in ensuring that unbalanced teenagers can not acquire guns.
The NRA should be pushing for the same thing for the US.
Propose a law that would "ensure the mentally ill could not easily acquire weapons" or "at risk groups such as teenagers could not aquire weapons"
I'd be delighted to.
This suggestion is part of a proposed EU law.
Basically, anyone who wants to apply for a gun license attends a 30-minute interview with a police psychiatrist, who also has access to their medical history. If the police are concerned about the person's motives or mental balance - they can not get a gun license.
Also, everyone has to attend a gun safety course over something like 10 x 90 minute sessions with a registered gun club. The gun club can fail the person if they consider the person constitutes a threat to public safety - i.e. if they joke about killing people. No safety certificate = no gun sales.
This is all quick, easy and will make a massive difference in ensuring that unbalanced teenagers can not acquire guns.
The NRA should be pushing for the same thing for the US.
In a 30 minute interview everyone could pass unless the "police psychiatrist " didn't want people to have a gun - then nobody could pass. You can't place that kind of power in the hands of any single individual. There is also the matter of cost - who would pay for those thousands of hours of "evaluation"?
Mandating a 15 hour course on gun safety is ridiculous. Most gun safety courses are 6 hours long and are quite extensive. I attend one every few years voluntarily and paid $70 for the last one - a few weeks ago. I learned nothing new but made a few friends and that is why I go.
So who would foot the bill of $175 per person for this training? Would either of these rules affect the criminal element? Would either of these programs take guns away from criminals?
These things just cost money and do nothing to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals. Criminals are not going to try to buy a gun legally. They are not going to go to an interview and they are not going to go to a safety traing class.