Re: Gun Control - Should Ordinary Citizens be allowed to Own, Carry, & Use Firearms?
Reply #266 –
So, a quickie question. How many more mass shootings by nutjobs will we have before somebody figures out that our "well regulated militia" is not at all well and probably could use some halfway decent regulation?
Right now, I can't drive a heavy truck (anything over 10,000 lbs) commercially because I can't pass the DOT physical . My left eye is bad, that stops me from driving semis. I can get cleared to own the heaviest piece of firearm a civilian can legally own, though, without much trouble. Most of these mass-shooters got their weapons legally enough precisely because they didn't actually belong to a "well regulated militia" which would have asked tough questions, made them go through basic training and so on-- and would have weeded out most of the misfits who shouldn't have been armed in the first place. You know, it takes a bit more than just being able to fog a mirror to pass muster in most any proper militia. They weed out a lot of crackpots in the physicals and basic training.
Think about it. I don't have any past convictions, my most serious run-ins with the law involve speeding tickets, I have no contact with the mental health people so no record there, not much really to stop me from getting the proper paperwork-- Illinois requires you to get certain paperwork if you're gonna do this legally-- and then getting the gun(s) I want to do whatever I want as long as I can convince the law that I'm not buying weapons to off my ex, do in my neighbor or shoot up a warehouse. Since nobody asks those questions until after the fact, it's never hard to convince LEO of these things. And, I don't have to actually join any militia to do it. Well regulated or otherwise. Oh, the fact that I'm a loner? That won't come out until after I off my ex, do in my neighbor and shoot up the warehouse. Then of course you'll read "Well, he was a bit of a loner, a quiet man...".