ElbertoHokie wrote:cwtcr hokie wrote:There is no debate on gun ownership, it is a part of our laws since the founding of the country. What exactly is wrong with the multitude of current gun laws?
How is requiring mandatory fire arms training before a person can own a gun limiting your gun rights? How is requiring federal background checks for all gun purchases(including private party) limiting your rights? We limit felons rights to vote and own a gun. Inherent rights to the constitution, if you want to go all the way, then they should be able to get them too.
I'm talking things like mandatory gun training. If you live in a home with a minor, mandatory gun safe, etc. I don't think you should be aloud to buy assault rifles, but you see, I'm not saying take them away. Those things I listed above could do a whole lot of good on their own. While its not all the good I think we could do, some good is better than none. Now what is your disagreement over the things I just suggested?
Firearm training was done by my dad a long time ago. Background checks are already part of the current gun laws, but not sure how you would police private gun sales since nobody knows they are occurring, commercial gun sellers have the ways to do the background checks, fred from his house probably does not but how would anyone know of the sale? Felons for obvious reasons have restrictions placed on them as they have already demonstrated an inability to follow our laws as written. As for mandatory gun safe? I have one but have no kids, guess I am super special. But there are a lot more ways to secure a gun from minors then a gun safe. Funny thing is my dad never had his guns in a safe, in a cabinet in our house that had a glass front and for some reason none of the six kids ever pulled them out and went to school to mow down our classmates.
Again, what gun laws (there are a whole lot on the books currently) would stop the random terrorist attack (San Bernandino) or the random nutjob attack (the others in the past few years)?
FYI, it is not possible to buy an automatic assault rifle now, what is your definition of an assault rifle?
I am not an expert on automatic weapons but I do know you can change them for some of the models (that is illegal btw). Keep in mind that the Kali terrorist used bombs yesterday and had a bomb lab in his middle class stucco house, all the ingredients for that operation were normal household items until you put them together and make a bomb with it (and google it, you will be a bomb expert in a few minutes) so what laws are you putting in to stop that, you have to register to buy pipe?