As a “pro gun guy”, I’d be curious on your thoughts about compromise. Allow people to get a gun, but only after taking a gun safety-type course. Like drivers training…you’re essentially getting into a “weapon” that has the potential to kill someone so you have to learn the law and how to drive safely. Same should go for using a gun.
Liberal gun owner here. My opinions were formed on my own do not belong to a political party.
I brought my first gun with barely any prior knowledge of guns on sort of a whim. Being able to do that helped me at the time. A LOT. If a safety course was required, I wouldn’t have been able to legally aquire a gun when I needed it because time and money. And might have been too dead to care. But even if it was required, I could’ve still gotten a gun illegally. Nothing will stop criminals from ignoring what law abiding people have to follow. This is also partly why I think arbitrary waiting times for a gun purchase is pointless. Actually I get genuinely pissed off when someone brings up suicides as a reason in favor.
On the flip side, I later chose to take a safety course and was surprised that the guy next to me with a CCW didn’t even know how to properly hold a gun (though he said he didn’t carry). I taught myself everything after buying the gun but still learned things there. So after taking it, I definitely see the benefit of a class.
Idk. I really don’t, I’m no expert. Parts of gun control just feel like putting a bandaid on a broken leg. I feel like we have to really dig into gun violence and figure out how to fix it from the root, and I feel like the root has social/economic inequality and social unrest all over it which is exactly what people in power (on either side of the aisle) don’t want to draw your attention to. I genuinely believe that if guns weren’t an issue, something else would be given the current climate of things (see the UK and knife violence. Yes, knives). Limiting law abiding people while letting ACAB, military, criminals, and rich people do whatever seems like a bad idea. I really wish so many things weren’t so heavily politicized so society can talk about it without being divisive or falling into tribalism.
As a “pro gun guy”, I’d be curious on your thoughts about compromise. Allow people to get a gun, but only after taking a gun safety-type course. Like drivers training…you’re essentially getting into a “weapon” that has the potential to kill someone so you have to learn the law and how to drive safely. Same should go for using a gun.
Liberal gun owner here. My opinions were formed on my own do not belong to a political party.
I brought my first gun with barely any prior knowledge of guns on sort of a whim. Being able to do that helped me at the time. A LOT. If a safety course was required, I wouldn’t have been able to legally aquire a gun when I needed it because time and money. And might have been too dead to care. But even if it was required, I could’ve still gotten a gun illegally. Nothing will stop criminals from ignoring what law abiding people have to follow. This is also partly why I think arbitrary waiting times for a gun purchase is pointless. Actually I get genuinely pissed off when someone brings up suicides as a reason in favor.
On the flip side, I later chose to take a safety course and was surprised that the guy next to me with a CCW didn’t even know how to properly hold a gun (though he said he didn’t carry). I taught myself everything after buying the gun but still learned things there. So after taking it, I definitely see the benefit of a class.
Idk. I really don’t, I’m no expert. Parts of gun control just feel like putting a bandaid on a broken leg. I feel like we have to really dig into gun violence and figure out how to fix it from the root, and I feel like the root has social/economic inequality and social unrest all over it which is exactly what people in power (on either side of the aisle) don’t want to draw your attention to. I genuinely believe that if guns weren’t an issue, something else would be given the current climate of things (see the UK and knife violence. Yes, knives). Limiting law abiding people while letting ACAB, military, criminals, and rich people do whatever seems like a bad idea. I really wish so many things weren’t so heavily politicized so society can talk about it without being divisive or falling into tribalism.