The Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis cases have me moderating on guns.
I speak here as a pro-gun rights absolutist. Historically gun control laws have been used to limit black and Native America populations from self defense. They have historically racist and they're hard to support. Black people that fight for gun control are fools in my eyes. I don't think the AR-15 should be banned. I don't think any type of gun should be, in fact. But after this week I think we need licenses.
Shootings are one thing. They're committed by criminals with zero regard for rule of law or human ethics and you can never solve crime by just making things illegal. The alcohol prohibition and drug war prove that case. But this isn't about crime. It's about complete and utter firearm neglect.
People are acting like it's the wild west with little regulation is another thing entirely from just a mass shooting. Yeah "it's illegal to shoot without just cause" but why does an 84 year old man that lives by himself not have any testing of his mental capacity for owning a firearm? People regularly say elderly people should be retested for drivers licenses.
How in the heck do they not have the same energy for guns?
Without forced training the result is simply people that have no business with guns that don't respect the five rules or human life doing whatever they want with them. I shot my first gun when I was 8 years old in the Cub Scouts and I've always respected them because of that experience. Thinking you have the right to shoot just because someone rung the doorbell and is black and male or because a lady drove into your drive way is the opposite of respect for human life and gun ownership.
Requiring testing or at the very least having gun safety classes or something with something as ubiquitous as a deadly weapon would solve so much.
If we come to consider that abortion should be legal....to a point there's absolutely no reason to allow utter unhinged access to firearms.
License them.
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