yes the ability to shoot up the theater and church, etc.... the people who are going to see a movie lose something as well, right?
I think you are missing the point, I am all for taking the guns out of the hands of the looney tune crowd, you can't do that without trampling on their rights. I also think the fear of many is if you allow the government to do this, who is to say they don't take it a step further, whats next? Ever been in a bar fight, now you can't own a gun. It is a very slippery slope is all I'm saying.
im sorry man, but thats paranoia in a sense. They could happen with everything. they ticket me for not wearing a seatbelt, no car insurance, etc. everything for that matter is a slippery slope.
Right, but how do you monitor, control, whatever to the mentally ill without infringing on their rights? Can you not see that you are taking something from them? Yes I get it @red55 you have to break an egg to make the omelet but you are still breaking the egg.
Any attempt to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody. One's "rights" end when they take away other people's rights. Massa is right, this is an irrational fear--a paranoid delusion. People today are afraid to take an ass-whipping because they all think they have a right to blow away somebody who disagrees with them. It's insane.
Brings me to a sort of off topic thing but quite some time ago they passed a law that said if you are convicted of domestic violence you are not allowed to have a gun, this got really tricky in the military to the point where they were processing people out because having a weapon is part of being in the military however the law was cut and dry.
Aren't you technically already fearful for your life if you carry a gun in public? I wondered that in the Zimmerman case, they tried to say he was fearful for his life, which is part of determining if the "stand your ground" law applies, but if you are carrying a gun in public at all, doesn't that mean you were fearing for your life the second you walked out of the door?
