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Originally Posted by frost
I don't have overly strong opinions on guns, but I'll throw my .02 in anyway.
When you wanted to drive, you had to prove competency, i.e. a road test. Why? Because you could kill someone.
However, you can just go buy a gun. I believe to purchase a gun, you should have take both a knowledge test, and a physical test to show competency and gain a license. And I'm not talking about concealed weapons permits, I mean buying a gun at all.
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It's a fair point to make, for sure. It's much easier to get reasonably-minded regulation passed, than to outright ban things.
Personally, I'm not in favor of regulation of this sort, mostly on the grounds that it's a slippery slope that leads to suppression of gun ownership down the line. In theory, if I could trust a government to enact reasonable regulation and stick to it, there would be no problem. However, there are many examples in history where gun regulation started out soft and got progressively harder until the entire population was effectively disarmed. That's usually right about the time a crazy dictator took over and enslaved everyone, or worse.
Ask a holocaust survivor someday how they feel about gun regulation, bans, and rights.
Edit: to complete that point, here's a direct quote from Hitler:
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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country."
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