Originally Posted by CDSmith

Tell that friend of yours that people with IQ's lower than that of a drawerful of rocks shouldn't be allowed to own a gun.



What I don't get is why the USA is so resistant to change. Sooner or later you are going to HAVE to do something by way of 'control', you're running out of options. But furthermore, why is it that so many are convinced that if you bring in some controls it means you lose the right to own a gun? It doesn't. It means that not every psycho who wanders in off the street can own one. It may mean that you have to qualify in some way to own guns. It may mean you have to get a two or three day certification on gun safety, use and ownership before being allowed to own one.

'Control' doesn't mean 'ban'. Two different things entirely. But sooner or later the glock will run out and...I mean the CLOCK will run out and there'll be just too damn many people getting shot by morons, psychos and idiots who should not have been allowed to buy them in the first place. This wide open freedom the NRA crowd is so insistent on keeping isn't working and everyone knows it, even them I suspect.

Want a gun? Fine, get one. Providing you can pass the checks and balances in place, that's all. Or keep on the way it is now with100% "freedom" and zero control whatsoever. Take your chances with the next mall or school shooting. See how your 'total freedom, zero control' policy gets you in the next ten or twenty years. (when these mass shootings are taking place do you Americans really feel 'free'??)

Controls won't fix the problem though. Fact is nothing will 'fix' the problem. Has having them in Canada fixed the problem here? No. But it HAS reduced it to a slightly more manageable level. There are certainly problems and gripings going on about it here, but those could easily serve as a learning curve for possible US policy changes. But really, to someone who wants to buy a handgun for protection, what the hell is wrong with having to fucking register it? Or be trained in how to use and care for it?

Quit fighting the control already, because it's coming, whether you want to admit it or not. Like the black president many of you denied was coming back in 2008, so is this. I'm as against any sort of ban as the next guy, but I sure sleep better at night knowing that the idiot with the smarts of a sea slug down the street from me can't qualify for a gun permit, but I can.