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WTR wrote:

SoConfused wrote:

WTR wrote:

SoConfused wrote:If I play Devils advocate for a moment and try to see things from the anti-gun citizens perspective, I can only come up with one legitimate concern to fear.

People with extensive and ongoing chemical dependence and psychiatric disorders can and do qualify for LTCs. heck, you can be diagnosed with bipolar disorder and go to inpatient drug rehab, get granted your LTC the following month, and then go back to inpatient drug rehab again the next month without losing your license!

However, I think those same people, if prone to violence, get weeded out pretty quickly by the criminal disqualifiers.

I doubt that is truthful if the person is also truthful about their hospitalization and their meds.

Exactly, criminal background check is a criminal background check, but thanks to HIPPA, medical history disclosure is on the honor system.

You are always going to have you dishonest and criminal activity. However, I would bet the amount of crime committed ( nation wide) by some one who has obtained an illegal LTC pails in comparison to the amount of killings perpetrated by thugs with illegally obtained weapons.....in Chicago alone
You are tilting at the wrong windmill.

If someone is mentally unstable enough to use a gun to commit violence, the fact of having an LTC or not, will have no effect. Neither will laws trying to add more people to the prohibited person list for purchasing a firearm. In fact if someone has mental issues, and are somehow predestined to commit violence either with a firearm, or some other method, they probably won't go through the process of obtaining an LTC in the first place. Laws requiring a license to carry have never stopped anyone, if they want to commit violence.

They are not afraid, but they know full well that the second amendment is the only thing that stands between them, and their socialist agenda. If they can weaken, or totally destroy, the 2A, then they can move forward with their ideology of taking control of the 1A. They would be able to control speech, and like the AG has already put forward, prosecute someone for "hate speech"

The second amendment is so unique in the world that no other country, defines firearm ownership as a right, there may be places that have few restrictions, but there is no guaranteed right like we have here.

Liberals are not afraid of guns, otherwise they wouldn't surround themselves with armed security details.
The only thing they are afraid of, is an educated, populous, that doesn't need them to control every aspect of their lives. And the 2A says that they can't do so if we refuse to allow it.