Debate about Gun Control

[Galen]

(09-28-2016, 01:28 AM)taramarie Wrote:

(09-28-2016, 01:23 AM)Galen Wrote:

(09-28-2016, 12:54 AM)taramarie Wrote: Nations that have no freedom are corrupt due to govt having ultimate power over you but rules regarding keeping people safe is different. Like in NZ laws are there to protect people. Laws in NK for instance are to control and dictate what people do in their personal lives. So there is that difference. I do put safety over freedom due to the environment i was raised in. I won't lie, I have never handled a gun and do not intend to either. So I have that similarity with Eric. But I also am aware that some people do use it for defense and my concern is for people to use them wisely as well as at least try not to put it in the hands of a former violent felon (IF that is done over there). So safety first for me. What has caused firearm accidents to decline?

The cause of the decrease is not really known but I can tell you that if you take a gun safety course the instructor will be NRA certified.  Contrary to demonization by Eric the Obtuse, the NRA spends most of its time teaching shooting and with that comes safety training.  The NRA has been around since the 1871 and only got into lobbying since the sixties when gun control and bans started coming in.

If you take a course for a concealed weapon permit then it will be taught by an NRA certified instructor.  It should also be noted that women are quite welcome in both the courses and shooting sports.  Having been to some of them I can tell you the women are treated quite well.

Laws in the US are often written to make the exercise of constitutional rights difficult or impossible.  This has been done so often in the last fifty years that the response by default is no.  Another thing that was learned in the seventies and eighties was that no matter how much you gave up the gun ban people would want more and soon there would be nothing left.

Is it compulsory for new gun owners to learn how to wisely use a gun and store a gun away?

Depends on the state.  Generally not because such laws in the end up being used like the poll taxes and literacy requirements were used in southern states to keep blacks from voting.  As the statistics show it isn't the problem that someone like Eric the Obtuse would make it out to be.

Forty years ago the issuing of concealed weapon permits was discretionary on the part of the county sheriff in almost all states and they almost impossible to get.  In California this is still true and it is almost impossible to get a permit.  Best way to get one is to make a sizeable contribution to the Sheriff's re-election campaign.  The majority of states now have non-discretionary permits and the predictions of a bloodbath on the part of gun control advocates never happened.  There are nine states now that require no permit to carry a firearm concealed.