I own 14 rifles and shotguns, three handguns and have a carry permit for last 30 years.
I totally agree there needs to be further gun legislation similar to a car and driving.
You can buy any car but cannot drive on the road unless you pass a written and performance exam to prove you are capable.
Guns should be the same. Buy one to protect your home, fine just never take it off your property. If you want to carry for protection while away from home you need to take a written and performance exam.
Too many “unqualified” people can purchase just about any firearm regardless of their knowledge of the gun. I learned from father, uncles , grandfather and cousins. Kids today learn from television, X box and other games.
Originally Posted by mtnitlion
I could say the same thing about freedom of speech, I don't think anyone should be able to wish death towards our president, but I see it multiple times a day in this forum.
In fact, I consider that a Red Flag for gun ownership.
And, I guess that right was precious, they made the 2nd Amendment to protect that right to speech, and all the others, so, people like you can't stop us from protecting ourselves from your attempt to limit our rights.
This wasn't just the Founding Fathers, but, it was also the same in the Magna Carta.
By the time of the 1225 reissue, the Magna Carta had become more than a sober statement of the common law; it was a symbol in the battle against oppression. It had been read so many times in shire courts throughout the land that memorable phrases would be invoked in later documents, and whenever liberty seemed in danger, men spoke of the charter as their defense. The influence of the Magna Carta in England—and, later, in its colonies—had come not from the detailed expression of the feudal relationship between lord and subject but from the more-general clauses in which every generation could see its own protection. In England the Petition of Right in 1628 and the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 looked directly back to clause 39 of the 1215 charter, which read:
No free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way victimised, neither will we attack him or send anyone to attack him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Indeed, this passage would serve as the foundational expression of the concept of due process in Anglo-American jurisprudence. In the 17th century, when England’s North American colonies were shaping their own fundamental laws, the words of the Magna Carta were worked into them. The basic rights embodied in the Constitution of the United States of America (1789) and the Bill of Rights (1791) echo the charter, and the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) can trace its ancestry to the Magna Carta as well.
Just to fill you in if you have forgotten.
Further the recent Heller decision speaks fully against your claim that we should only be allowed to have our weapons at home, because we have a RIGHT to be armed for self defense, against people like you, and the bad guys.
And I say YOU, because you are attempting to limit my god given rights, and that makes you an oppressor.
No different from the Nazi lady at the polls in 2020 who told me I wasn't allowed to cast my vote at the polls because I didn't have a FUCKING COVID mask on.
And I'll repeat what I told her, "Who the hell are you to decide what I can do under the Constitution of this United States. You better think goddamn hard before you tell me I can't' do what I am legally allowed to do, and you better be prepared for the consequences if you make any further attempt to limit my rights."
Voting, I take that shit seriously, as do I take my right to be armed when and where I wish to go.
