The mass shooting last month in Maine — perpetrated by an Army reservist allowed to keep his guns reportedly bought days before he underwent psychiatric evaluations due to his erratic behavio…
I have absolutely no problem with people using guns in a target shooting type of way.
Or in other responsible types of ways, like properly managed hunting or where there are things like moose and polar and grizzly bears. Guns are tools.
I don't like guns, but I understand. Gun nuts are the problem, as are guns as tools that are only designed to kill humans. I can even understand why people would want to shoot an assault rifle or other weapon of war.
It just needs to be controlled.
The worst part is that I would really like to spend an afternoon blowing shit up. Go to someplace fun. Learn about the process. Then push the pluger.
The problem is that that's actually well controlled. Enough so that I can't really find a good way to experience it outside of a construction project in my past.
I've often wondered if weapons like AR-15s should be only allowed to be owned by gun ranges and similar setups. You'd go in, rent an AR-15 for a certain period of time, get a safety lesson on how to use it, and then go to a shooting range where targets have been set up for you to shoot at.
When you're done, you turn the weapon back in and go on your way. The gun range locks it up and is responsible for it. If an employee makes off with the gun and shoots someone, the gun range is liable. If the guns aren't locked up properly and someone breaks in and steals it, the gun range is liable.
There would be regular checks to make sure the gun range was compliant with safety procedures. Kind of like what restaurants go through to make sure that they are storing food properly.
This would allow people to fire weapons like an AR-15 in a safe manner with minimal risk that this gun would be used for a mass shooting.
Of course, given the current Supreme Court makeup, I fully expect that this would be deemed unconstitutional.
I have absolutely no problem with people using guns in a target shooting type of way.
Or in other responsible types of ways, like properly managed hunting or where there are things like moose and polar and grizzly bears. Guns are tools.
I don't like guns, but I understand. Gun nuts are the problem, as are guns as tools that are only designed to kill humans. I can even understand why people would want to shoot an assault rifle or other weapon of war.
It just needs to be controlled.
The worst part is that I would really like to spend an afternoon blowing shit up. Go to someplace fun. Learn about the process. Then push the pluger.
The problem is that that's actually well controlled. Enough so that I can't really find a good way to experience it outside of a construction project in my past.
I've often wondered if weapons like AR-15s should be only allowed to be owned by gun ranges and similar setups. You'd go in, rent an AR-15 for a certain period of time, get a safety lesson on how to use it, and then go to a shooting range where targets have been set up for you to shoot at.
When you're done, you turn the weapon back in and go on your way. The gun range locks it up and is responsible for it. If an employee makes off with the gun and shoots someone, the gun range is liable. If the guns aren't locked up properly and someone breaks in and steals it, the gun range is liable.
There would be regular checks to make sure the gun range was compliant with safety procedures. Kind of like what restaurants go through to make sure that they are storing food properly.
This would allow people to fire weapons like an AR-15 in a safe manner with minimal risk that this gun would be used for a mass shooting.
Of course, given the current Supreme Court makeup, I fully expect that this would be deemed unconstitutional.