People not knowing how to store and handle firearms are a huge liability.
Not training as in “how to put 5 center mass in 5 seconds”.
But training about how kids get hold of guns, correct storage, correct safeties, correct loading, correct holding.
Even things like how to defuse situations, how to identify actual threats, stuff like that.
I remember when i was a kid, i went to a police precinct and got to play on their training simulator. I completely missed the fact there was a gun on the floor and died to someone i didnt see, instead of the obviously hostile person i was “talking” to.
Training like that, except maybe less “police” oriented.
My goal isn’t to make it difficult for people to own guns in general, just to make sure that the people who do are safe and that they have no excuses not to be safe.
If someone, for whatever reason, really feels that they need a gun, they will get their hands on one regardless of legality.
If we put a bunch of barriers in the way of them getting one legally, they will choose to go the illegal route. If we make the process of getting a gun too burdensome or expensive, they will circumvent it, and then we have a person with a gun who probably won’t have the necessary training to be safe with it.
There’s also class issues, if we make it too expensive to own a gun, then only rich people will own guns. I don’t think the state of your bank account is in any way indicative of your ability to be a safe gun owner.
And if you’re a person who believes in an individual right to keep and bear arms, you’re probably not too keen on the government trying to lock that right behind a paywall. Personally, while I don’t necessarily think that it should be a universal right in the same way many gun nuts do, I generally dislike the government having any out-of-pocket costs. If it’s something the government is requiring of you, it should be free. To me, if the government wants you to get your car inspected, that cost should be covered out of taxes, repairs to make your car pass inspection can fall on you, but the actual inspection should be footed by the government, there shouldn’t be any fees for drivers licenses, passports, marriage licenses, car registrations, etc. any sort of service the government provides, I think, should be free of any added fees. That should all be being paid from our taxes, which necessitates some increased taxes on the wealthy to cover them. And before anyone bring up me wanting to increase the tax stamp on machine guns, I basically view that as a sales tax, which I’m not in general, opposed to. I’d like to see more sales taxes like that on a lot of expensive luxury goods, especially since getting reasonable income tax from the wealthy seems unlikely anytime soon, if we can’t get it directly out of their income, we can make up at least some of the difference by heavily taxing their yachts, private jets, Lamborghinis, etc. when they buy them.
I prefer most, if not all of these. My only change id make is to make the training and such not free. I want to make it as painful as possible.
Disagree.
Education is safety.
People not knowing how to store and handle firearms are a huge liability.
Not training as in “how to put 5 center mass in 5 seconds”.
But training about how kids get hold of guns, correct storage, correct safeties, correct loading, correct holding.
Even things like how to defuse situations, how to identify actual threats, stuff like that.
I remember when i was a kid, i went to a police precinct and got to play on their training simulator. I completely missed the fact there was a gun on the floor and died to someone i didnt see, instead of the obviously hostile person i was “talking” to.
Training like that, except maybe less “police” oriented.
My goal isn’t to make it difficult for people to own guns in general, just to make sure that the people who do are safe and that they have no excuses not to be safe.
If someone, for whatever reason, really feels that they need a gun, they will get their hands on one regardless of legality.
If we put a bunch of barriers in the way of them getting one legally, they will choose to go the illegal route. If we make the process of getting a gun too burdensome or expensive, they will circumvent it, and then we have a person with a gun who probably won’t have the necessary training to be safe with it.
There’s also class issues, if we make it too expensive to own a gun, then only rich people will own guns. I don’t think the state of your bank account is in any way indicative of your ability to be a safe gun owner.
And if you’re a person who believes in an individual right to keep and bear arms, you’re probably not too keen on the government trying to lock that right behind a paywall. Personally, while I don’t necessarily think that it should be a universal right in the same way many gun nuts do, I generally dislike the government having any out-of-pocket costs. If it’s something the government is requiring of you, it should be free. To me, if the government wants you to get your car inspected, that cost should be covered out of taxes, repairs to make your car pass inspection can fall on you, but the actual inspection should be footed by the government, there shouldn’t be any fees for drivers licenses, passports, marriage licenses, car registrations, etc. any sort of service the government provides, I think, should be free of any added fees. That should all be being paid from our taxes, which necessitates some increased taxes on the wealthy to cover them. And before anyone bring up me wanting to increase the tax stamp on machine guns, I basically view that as a sales tax, which I’m not in general, opposed to. I’d like to see more sales taxes like that on a lot of expensive luxury goods, especially since getting reasonable income tax from the wealthy seems unlikely anytime soon, if we can’t get it directly out of their income, we can make up at least some of the difference by heavily taxing their yachts, private jets, Lamborghinis, etc. when they buy them.