I've typed and re-typed a response to this thread and find it very difficult to clearly get my thoughts across. I'll try once again.
The right to bear arms, a constitutional right, is so key to many of the rights we should have. But what we have here in California is a slow, steady, unrelenting push to eventually remove every right as a property owner. The do-gooders don't believe that the average person has the basic intelligence to handle any of lifes responsibilities. Their solution is to remove any and all freedoms and replace them with government control because we're all too stupid and inept to take care of ourselves, our property, and that which belongs to others.
I'm sorry, but when I see in this thread that we need to license, to test, to create new hardships to owning guns I want to scream. Have you lost faith in your fellow man. I ask you, how did we survive as a society for the last 225 years without these rules, laws, licenses, etc.. There were always stupid people, there will always be stupid people that society needs to deal with through our laws. But far and away the vast majority of the people of the United States are decent, caring, thoughtful individuals. What's changing today is that due to our information age if the news companys can't sell you a box of cereal while telling you about a gun incident within your hometown, they'll look further in your state, 2000 miles across the country, neighboring countries, the world. Why, because violence gets your attention, you'll watch, you'll read, their ratings will go up, they'll sell more advertising. Making you believe there's a crisis will make them lots of money. Wake up.
I've read about tractor accidents on this web site. There devastating. All you dumb farmers and stupid tractor drivers out there need to be licensed, before you get a tractor that could kill you or someone else you ought to be licensed and go through a safety course. And by the way, if you can't prove any good reason for having a tractor I think you shouldn't be allowed to have it. In fact any tractor over 15 horsepower being used on property of less than 2 acres, on land that is greater than 12 degrees in slope, on sunny days where your neighbors view is impaired, or his ears can detect the deisel sound, or noxious deisel emissions come through southeasterly winds......
I'm sure this all sounds stupid, but it was meant to be. I'm just sick of news stories saying that the U.S. has gone to hell and we need a new law. Again I ask, how did the poor dumb slobs who lived here before us survive without without the commercial news services. There isn't a crisis! We don't need to take away people's rights. They just want you to buy cereal.
I know most of you feel the way I do to some extent, and I'm not preaching to you, I'm just venting. But can you imagine what would happen if there wasn't a gun crisis to report about and Peter Jennings decided to look into compact tractors for a juicy story.
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