Posted on Nov 11, 2020
Opinion | Michael E. Diamond: Want to know the truth about civilian gun culture? Ask a veteran.
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It's almost never a legal gun owner who has taken a class who shoots others.
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This is a dumb article for a few reasons.
1, the military can be stricter than the civilian population for the simple fact that being in the military by its very nature is more restrictive. All his points about military access to arms and ammunition makes sense, but you can't expect the same of civilian world.
2, no matter how much training you have, if someone wants to do bad with guns, they will. Military or not. School shootings lose credibility on gun control pushes for me because you're playing into emotions. None of these proposed "common sense" measures will stop someone who wants to commit horrible acts. If anything make them change their game plan. Anyone stationed in Europe since 2014 would know this as we all would get the alert texts that some guy went on a stabbing spree or drove a vehicle into a crowd.
3, you want people to take training courses? Cool. People do. However, mandating that by the government opens the door to more anti-gun policies. I'm all for safe storage and training, but I don't need the government forcing it. Especially when they can make arbitrary rules that may make it prohibitively expensive to take courses before you're allowed to own a gun or restrict how these training facilities can operate.
4, background checks. Ah such a debated topic. It circles back to points I made before but universal background checks leads to national gun registries which leads to confiscation.
I don't trust the government to let them decide who owns a gun or what type. It is surprising how many people refuse to believe the two political parties are only interested in their self interest. If they really cared about the American people they should want the citizens armed. But it's about control.
1, the military can be stricter than the civilian population for the simple fact that being in the military by its very nature is more restrictive. All his points about military access to arms and ammunition makes sense, but you can't expect the same of civilian world.
2, no matter how much training you have, if someone wants to do bad with guns, they will. Military or not. School shootings lose credibility on gun control pushes for me because you're playing into emotions. None of these proposed "common sense" measures will stop someone who wants to commit horrible acts. If anything make them change their game plan. Anyone stationed in Europe since 2014 would know this as we all would get the alert texts that some guy went on a stabbing spree or drove a vehicle into a crowd.
3, you want people to take training courses? Cool. People do. However, mandating that by the government opens the door to more anti-gun policies. I'm all for safe storage and training, but I don't need the government forcing it. Especially when they can make arbitrary rules that may make it prohibitively expensive to take courses before you're allowed to own a gun or restrict how these training facilities can operate.
4, background checks. Ah such a debated topic. It circles back to points I made before but universal background checks leads to national gun registries which leads to confiscation.
I don't trust the government to let them decide who owns a gun or what type. It is surprising how many people refuse to believe the two political parties are only interested in their self interest. If they really cared about the American people they should want the citizens armed. But it's about control.
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