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In reply to the discussion: My ideas for sensible gun control [View all]backscatter712
(26,355 posts)12. True, but am I the only one who thinks that drinking and packing should be as serious as DUI?
If you're packing while getting likkered up at a bar, you're incredibly stupid and irresponsible. IMHO, packing heat while you're intoxicated should be punished as seriously as a DUI/DWI. I'm talking jail time, loss of gun-carrying & gun-owning privileges, huge fines, supervised probation.
Seriously. If you're going to be drinking, lose the gun. I insist, and I would have it that the law insists.
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those are all good ideas, but someone could follow all of those rules right up until the moment they
dionysus
Dec 2012
#2
I honestly do not have much issue with your list. My only question is if this would have....
Logical
Dec 2012
#3
Yes, hard to say if a 20 year old would not have had access to the guns anyway. Most adults....
Logical
Dec 2012
#11
True, but am I the only one who thinks that drinking and packing should be as serious as DUI?
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#12
I actually posted something similar in response to the Virginia Tech Massacre
FunkyLeprechaun
Dec 2012
#22