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mreavis wrote:

Crossfire wrote:

mreavis wrote:But it doesn't mean 12 year olds should be carrying guns in middle school or repeat offending violent criminals should be armed.

If more of us good guys carried, then there wouldn't be as many "repeat offending violent criminals".

You having a gun doesn't stop someone from being a criminal, although it does protect you. Yes in a perfect world things shouldn't be the way they are. But we do not live in a perfect world. And just like cars, large machinery, and dangerous chemicals: I personally believe that you should be required to pass a simple proficiency test. I am not saying that by god given rights it is a perfect solution. Logic wise it would just be completely insane to have no policy and procedure in place for items of potential mass power. If every time someone got in a car wreck strawberries shot everywhere, we probably wouldn't care about peoples driving skills near as much. But again, that is not the world we live in.

This does not mean they should make money off CHL licensing. And it doesn't mean you should need to be EX law enforcement. But you don't just tell someone to get in a car and wing it. I don't see the difference. Oh and IMPO the driving test is at least twice as hard as the CHL class. But then again cars kill a lot more people than guns.