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In reply to the discussion: If it's about guns, cool. If it's about people, count me out. [View all]REP
(21,691 posts)57. Well, if you suck driving ...
I probably didn't express myself well. My idea wasn't that gun owners demonstrate they shoot at any particular skill level, but can load their gun, know if it's double, single, double-single, etc action, use the sights and attempt to aim and hit a target. Not in the '10' ring but hit the target at all.
I know cars and guns are different in terms of rights, and I could be wrong, but somehow some minimum proficiency/safety testing could be part of maintaining a registered/licensed weapon? Speaking for myself, I'd gladly do that; in California, a written test is required (which is where this idea came from) but I think it should be given more often.
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I keep waiting for Skinner et al. to shut down some of this but so far ... nothing.
Bake
Jan 2013
#73
Sorry, but the culture is as much a part of it as the guns themselves. Yesterday I got called a
Erose999
Jan 2013
#6
Maybe "taken down a peg" wasn't the right word. I don't care about "scoring points" because honestly
Erose999
Jan 2013
#11
I had a gun pointed at me by a family member who was also a convicted felon and had mental issues...
Erose999
Jan 2013
#13
That same sherrifs office got into trouble shortly after that because guns that had been slated to
Erose999
Jan 2013
#22
Oh, you're right, military styled rifles are just a convenient scapegoat du jour.
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#44
Country music listening, skoal dipping, camo wearing, Baptist church going, Repub voting fireman
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#40
people in rural areas are the ones that accidentally shoot their children and threaten to overthrow
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#18
I don't see the problem with discussing a wide range of policies on the internet.
DanTex
Jan 2013
#58
I haven't seen any discussion of microstamping at all in the wake of Sandy Hook.
DanTex
Jan 2013
#66
That's the way I took it too, a confrontation with an armed person is not a fun thing
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#23
Some folks insist on hanging on those suicides because it inflates the number to something to go on
TheKentuckian
Jan 2013
#42
Why is it that pro-gun advocacy forces people into making bizarre and callous claims
DanTex
Jan 2013
#69
Most of those folks are ATTENTION SEEKERS rather than being serious about suicide
TheKentuckian
Jan 2013
#75