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[Cow Poke]

My was a 20 round tube fed .22 semi. Let the young people use bolt action rifles, or single or double barrel shotguns for target shooting and hunting.

meh... I think the big problem with semi-auto in an active shooter situation is the ability to change magazines quickly, regardless of capacity.

[Gondwanaland]

No, in the Military you are trained and disciplined to use firearms. And unless you are in combat you don't have easy access to guns.

Why should we expect our young men and women to not be allowed, in private life, to be able to use much less destructive weapons than what they use every day in their military service? It's already absurd enough that they can't drink alcohol but can sign up to die for their country.

[seer]

Why should we expect our young men and women to not be allowed, in private life, to be able to use much less destructive weapons than what they use every day in their military service? It's already absurd enough that they can't drink alcohol but can sign up to die for their country.

What do you think about a mandatory gun safety course?

[Gondwanaland]

What do you think about a mandatory gun safety course?

Is it free?

[Cow Poke]

What do you think about a mandatory gun safety course?

It's what fathers used to do!

[seer]

It's what fathers used to do!

I don't know, I went through the NRA course at 13...

[Cow Poke]

I don't know, I went through the NRA course at 13...

I never heard of the NRA at 13.

[seer]

I never heard of the NRA at 13.

They were involved pretty heavily in hunting around here and gun clubs...

[Cow Poke]

They were involved pretty heavily in hunting around here and gun clubs...

For whatever reason, our influence in that area came from the local YMCA, which taught gun safety with air rifles, then .22 rifles.

Maybe it's wherever the local "dads" wish to contribute.

[Mountain Man]

I find the argumentation for both of these boring topics to be highly emotional and so I try to avoid discussion of them.

So naturally, you deicded to start a boring thread to discuss a topic you claim is boring.

Well played.

[Mountain Man]

Another good step is to make it a five year mandatory jail sentence when using a firearm in a felony. But the leftist won't go along with that...

I think it should be 10-years with no possibility of parole, and only then does the sentence for the felony begin, so that no matter what, any crime committed with a gun will earn you 10-years minimum.

[whag]

Burr, is one of my guilty pleasures...

No reason to feel guilty listening to a sharp comedian.

But what I do think is reasonable is to have a 21 age limit for semi-auto firearms, and to require passing a gun safety course, with background checks.

Burr proposes more than age requirement and background checks. He proposes serious psychological evaluation of people buying semi auto firearms. Did you hear what he said?

What you propose is boring since age and gun safety are irrelevant to the issue of gun massacres.

[seer]

No reason to feel guilty listening to a sharp comedian.

It's the language.

Burr proposes more than age requirement and background checks. He proposes serious psychological evaluation of people buying semi auto firearms. Did you hear what he said?

Yep, I listened to it all. I don't agree.

What you propose is boring since age and gun safety are irrelevant to the issue of gun massacres.

Like this whole thread isn't boring?

[Mountain Man]

No reason to feel guilty listening to a sharp comedian.



Burr proposes more than age requirement and background checks. He proposes serious psychological evaluation of people buying semi auto firearms. Did you hear what he said?

What you propose is boring since age and gun safety are irrelevant to the issue of gun massacres.

This begins to stray into the area of "guilty until proven innocent". Nobody should have to prove himself before being allowed to exercise his fundamental rights.

With regard to psychological evaluations, since psychology is a "soft" science and open to interpretation, how could you ensure the evaluation is objective? What's to stop an examiner from putting his proverbial thumb on the scale and arbitrarily denying people the right to purchase a firearm?

[Machinist]

Just make them all take the Minnesota Multi Phasic Personality Inventory.