Ghost wrote:
It's been my experience that anti's only see guns for killing and are of the belief that they can't trust themselves with them so therefore everybody else must think the same way they do and shouldn't have them either.
In this article you have a guy that has zero sense of self control so I'm not sure why we should feel safe around him. He's vilified the gun into thinking he's safe as long as he doesn't have a gun but at the point he has a gun he could easily be unhinged killer guy?
It also shows that somebody who goes through something traumatic be it war, divorce, family death etc. decides they should go get some help and the person helping them puts a note in a file that they may never be able to rectify.
It also goes to show that background checks are again, useless and are trumped by personal responsibility and morals for which our society seems to pride itself of neither.
Had a similar very conversation with another forum member at lunch yesterday.
A neighbor and his wife had a long, storied history of domestic conflict, to the point law enforcement was involved numerous times.
this neighbor's feeling about guns was that no one should have them because sometimes he got so mad he was afraid he'd shoot someone if a a gun was present.
Your litmus test is, of course the correct one;
if someone is not considered unsafe to to be among motor vehicles, eating utensils, building materials, or hand and power tools, there's no reason to prohibit access to firearms either.