Your Gun Control Laws

[Benton]

(12-09-2015, 07:29 PM)ExtraRadiohead Wrote: I can respect that. All of us shaped by the atmosphere we grew up in it or are currently living in. Maybe I've let the world I grew up in give me a bad attitude.

I was raised in two distinct worlds. From birth to high school I lived in a pretty diverse area outside Dayton with a huge school district with lots of different people and views on the world where some families were into guns and some weren't. Probably around 1,500 kids in my graduating class Then in high school I moved to a more rural area with a lot less diversity and less then a hundred kids in a graduating class. A lot of the area seemed to be on the same page as far as firearms went. Firearms were treated as almost a badge of honor for extreme conservatives more then a deadly weapon. That's always rubbed me the wrong way.










That is a significant chunk. Isn't it responsible gun ownership to take it upon yourself to learn about gun safety just like it is to lock up your guns? I don't see how anyone should be able to purchase a weapon or obtain a license without taking a course of some kind but that doesn't mean making it a course in school. There are way more practical things to be teaching kids with the limited funding we give to education. Some people plan on never touching a firearm it's not a given like having sex or driving a car.

I think there should be. And that would be a better way to handle ot than doing it in schools. The problem is, according to some estimates, there are three firearms in the U.S. to every person. I don't know if that's a valid stat or not, but if it's true, that's a butt load of guns already in circulation. If you're only making those in the future take a firearms safety class, you're going to skip millions of people who already own them, inherit them, or spend their childhood growing up around them.