re: #430 William Lewis

Can I say again, I really want the Czech gun licensing system dropped into America? There is nothing incompatable with the actual 2nd Amendment in that system: Pass the tests, have a license? Good to go. Fail the tests? No license & no pew pew for you.

When DF was here, I raised the point that inherent in our citizenship or residency in this country, we all have a fundamental/constitutional right to move freely about the country. A car is, arguably, the most effective way of exercising that right. But you still have to pass a written test and a behind the wheel test to get a license, you have to have insurance if you own and operate a car, your license can be revoked if you violate certain sections of the law - even if its not a misdemeanor (get enough speeding tickets and you can have your license suspended or revoked). Those seem like entirely reasonable things with cars, and should be with guns as well.

And that doesn’t even get into the fact that there’s no reasonable purpose for a private citizen to own a semi-automatic or fully automatic weapon. Those are military grade weapons, as far as I’m concerned, and just like you can’t own an Abrams tank or RPG or an ICBM, I don’t see why you should be able to own those types of rifles. Especially when there are apparently very simple modifications or tools that turn semi-auto weapons into full auto weapons.