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Originally Posted by jeremy1375
If training were required for gun use in much the same way it's required for motor vehicle operation, how would that be a bad thing if it helped ensure those who don't know what they're doing to get educated?
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There is a difference here. A car is something used on the public roads, in fact, that training is specific to use in public. Use, every day. A gun is not. A gun is as private an item as a Playboy magazine if I choose for it to be. Self defense wise, if I can't get to my gun I always have a knife or 3, a rolling pin, baseball bat, and if needed a rolled up Playboy mag to beat someone senseless with.
And you know what, how many people have you seen on the roads and wondered how the hell they passed. But there they are. And drinking and driving. Cell phones and texting. Poorly prepped cars in bad weather. These are the aspects of danger. These are the items you can make a case for similar to gun control. It's the use of an item. How a person acts and makes decisions. Drinking and driving killed a family member of mine and I'm thankful no one else. But I won't want your right to drive taken away cause you are a more responsible driver any more than I want my gun rights taken away due to someone not being responsible. What I want are more options (and I mean options) for training, which there is a lot more of now, better help for mental health, and more $ to focus on the criminal aspects in our own communities.
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Originally Posted by jeremy1375
No background check or paperwork is required for private gun sales. Seems to me like any criminal can just go buy a gun with no trouble whatsoever. How would closing that loophole not make it harder for a criminal to get a gun?
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http://www.civilresponse.net/04/2014...les-minnesota/
There are laws in place, and ways as a private party seller to protect yourself in a private sale. In your transaction, that criminal buying a gun is generally doing so from another criminal. And if not, may of purchased the gun legally years before falling on hard times and becoming someone intent on using it unlawfully. Or simply, guy broke into a house a stole it. Broke into a gun store and stole it. Was one of the many temp UPS workers who steal packages over the holidays. The thing is, regulations won't stop that. It simply tells those will ill intent that once they get away with the action of getting a gun there is less chance someone is on the other end to stop them. And don't say the cops will be there. Cause in most cases they aren't there till it's too late and you just hope you're alive to tell the story.
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