Tag: Ownership

Gun Ownership – with Education

When it comes to gun ownership, legal ownership, it should be treated like a Drivers License – to a degree.

This is what I mean.

  1. Want to buy a gun?
    1. Get schooled on gun safety, use and maintenance
    2. Be tested and pass on 1.1
    3. Pass a background check to ensure you’re not a loon.
    4. Buy & register your gun and use it in private or on a designated shooting range.
  2. Want to carry your gun in public?
    1. Get defensive gun training
    2. Get schooled on laws and regulation in your area
    3. Be tested and pass on 2.1 and 2.2
    4. Get your permit for pubic carry
    5. Repeat 2.1 thru 2.4 every 5-10 years to renew your public carry permit

Cars are dangerous weapons as well. And as such there are certain similar process everyone goes through in order to ensure everyone’s safety. And it’s not to different than what I’ve outlined above for guns:

  1. Want to drive a car?
    1. Go to Driver’s Education Class covering driving, laws, and personal fitness
    2. Be tested in driving, the laws, and general personal fitness (reading, eyes, etc)
    3. Get your Driver’s License
    4. Repeat 2.2 thru 2.3 every 5-10 years to renew your Driver’s License

As with owning a car, you don’t need a license to own a gun. You just need to register both of them. You DO need a license if you wish to use either in public.

Too many times, however, guns are bought by people who don’t know how to use, store, or care for them. And this can result in accidently injuries and deaths. So this is where I think gun ownership should require basic schooling and testing.

Carry permits also need to be a little tighter. Just passing addition background checks are not enough. Training and education should be required for defensive use and transporting (on your body, in your car, etc.) as well as laws and regulations for carrying. And testing on those points should be regularly conducted to retain that permit – just as with a Driver’s License.

Guns will NEVER be eliminated from the US, and if they are, only criminals will have them – leaving citizens as helpless victims of robbery, abduction, assault, etc. And as we all know: When seconds count, the police are minutes away.