They kinda licensed in a similar way. Don't need a driver's license to buy a car you don't even need one to drive a car you need one to drive a car on a public Road. You want to concealed carry a gun in public then you need a license. Just like driver's licenses this doesn't stop people from doing it without one but if they get caught they have broken the law and they are in trouble.
Very true. So, why aren't all guns licensed? I have to take classes each year to stay on top of my profession. Why aren't gun owners required to take classes on gun safety, storage, etc? Why aren't they required to renew this every so often?
That is all I'm asking. I don't want anything banned. I enjoy guns. I will be out with my son and my father in law in the next few weeks and we will shoot AR-15, AK-47, a couple old british jungle carbines, etc. Nothing wrong with any of that.
But, why do we treat guns with less care than tobacco?
And back to my original point, which has to do with all of this, why are gun owners afraid to admit they are gun owners?
Why not license and protect innocent people and take guns away from those who are not responsible enough for them?
Those people that die from accidental shooting were more than three times as likely to have had a firearm in their home as those in the control group.
Among children, the majority of unintentional shooting deaths occur in the home. Most of these deaths occur when children are playing with a loaded gun in their parent’s absence.
In states with increased gun availability, death rates from gunshots for children were higher than in states with less availability.
The vast majority of accidental firearm deaths among children are related to child access to firearms — either self-inflicted or at the hands of another child.
The U.S. General Accounting Office estimated that 31 percent of accidental deaths caused by firearms might be prevented with the addition of 2 devices: a child-proof safety lock and a loading indicator.
Approximately one of three handguns guns is kept loaded and unlocked and most children know where their parents keep their guns.
Gun owners in a household (predominantly men) are more likely to report that their gun is stored unlocked and loaded, compared to the non-owners (predominantly women) in those households. This argues for better education of household members regarding safe storage in homes with children.
https://injury.research.chop.edu/vi...-violence/gun-violence-facts-and#.WMMFxVUrK70
Not all gun owners are these responsible, intelligent people. A significant portion of them are morons and should not own guns, or at the very least, would benefit GREATLY (including having their children still alive) if they were required to have a license to own and store a gun and had taken gun safety classes.
Which leads to another question: Why is the NRA and gun owners so against studies of guns, gun violence, gun violence prevention, etc?
