SpacePuppy wrote:

I am generally loathe to agree with someone from the GOP, but we are on a course from what I can see of dismantling the Constitution, which mind you has been under attack esp with the 4th amendment, 1st, etc. for several years... we should not approach any of this without consideration:

Here's someone else talking about it in greater depth:

We should be licensing people to own guns.  We do it with driving, hunting, and fishing.  Different class licenses based on age, experience, and background checks.

Also, maybe it's time to re-institute the draft for everybody men and women. Mandatory two years service, no exceptions.  Hell, after boot camp they can all do military peace corps work for all I care.  In exchange they get the GI Bill and maybe even some college credit depending on what they do.

Baywolfe wrote:

We should be licensing people to own guns.  We do it with driving, hunting, and fishing.  Different class licenses based on age, experience, and background checks.

Also, maybe it's time to re-institute the draft for everybody men and women. Mandatory two years service, no exceptions.  Hell, after boot camp they can all do military peace corps work for all I care.  In exchange they get the GI Bill and maybe even some college credit depending on what they do.

I'll tell you what, cleaning your damn weapon every day for two years will cure most of this gun-mania.  Fucking hate shooting weapons because then I have to clean them, blanks are the absolute worst.

Platymingo wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

We should be licensing people to own guns.  We do it with driving, hunting, and fishing.  Different class licenses based on age, experience, and background checks.

Also, maybe it's time to re-institute the draft for everybody men and women. Mandatory two years service, no exceptions.  Hell, after boot camp they can all do military peace corps work for all I care.  In exchange they get the GI Bill and maybe even some college credit depending on what they do.

I think I agree with you here.  I think the Gun Rights Lobby would claim that this is an infringement, but the constitution does say "well regulated militia."

If I want to make my gun friends go nuts, I offer the following:
Every firearm should be registered and insured (like a car).
Every firearm owner should be licensed. (licensing gun owners sounds like regulating the militia, maybe)
If you think your right to own is being infringed by the tax of registration and insurance, then the authorities should be able to waive those fees on the first firearm.

If anything should be a right, it should be driving a car.  Not having a license limits employment and freedom of movement in some respects.

I agree on the insurance thing, but it kinda screws the poor smuck from the bad side of town trying to protect his family.  Pro-rated perhaps.

Licensed, meh.  Training, classes? Not a bad idea.  I remember once upon a time that the NRA was a feed in school to ROTC, military.

I am for a draft, universally speaking that isn't just military, but which benefits the society as a whole. 

Bring back Civic Classes, FFS.

Do you really trust the Gov't to do any of this well?

Last edited by SpacePuppy (2019-09-15 21:14:39)