Why do i have to take drivers ed to drive, but i dont have to take weapons ed to buy a gun?

Question

simple logic, purchasers should be required to show proof of education in weapons and have to purchase weapon insurance to buy ANY gun, just like a car.

Answer 1

and that would do what? people with gun permits can still use them irresponsibly. just like people who have a driver's license can drive irresponsibly...i don't think it would help. there are other ways to find a gun than your local ammu-nation. and anyway, some states do have that restriction. texas, for one

Answer 2

I agree that maybe weapons ed would be helpful. I am from WI we hunt a lot and need to take hunters safety and I think that is very helpful although if some wants to kill someone they will get a gun illegally. I am not sure what weapons insurance would do. If someone is going to kill someone they aren't going to care if they are insured or not. A lot of people drive and buy cars second hand and don't carry insurance.

Answer 3

Guns are much safer and easier to use than cars. In the US, for instance, in the US guns kill something under 2000 people a year, and cars over 20000. You don't even want to know how many people cigarettes kill.

But, yes, it'd make tons of sense to require firearms safety training - or proficiency with firearms safety via some sort of reasonable test - before purchasing a gun. I learned gun safety as a child, so it's pretty deeply ingrained, and I'm frequently apalled by what I see at the range.

The argument against it is that gun ownership is a constitutional right, while motor vehicle operation is a privilage confered by the state.

Answer 4

Easy.

Driving a vehicle on a public street is a privilege.
Possessing a weapon is a right.
Apples and oranges.

Your dog doesn't need proof of education in order to have teeth. Your cat doesn't need to purchase claw insurance.

The means of self-defense are RIGHTS with which you are born, not PRIVILEGES granted to you by some authority that controls you.

Self-defense is an inalienable basic human right. In America, that includes defense of our constitutional society governed by We the People against the raids against our liberty made by the state and traitors who put other authorities ahead of We the People of the United States.

Foreign peoples of most societies do NOT live under the ultimate authority of We the People. Most live under despotic governments, kings, dictators, sheikhs, and the Gods and preists and ayatollahs approved by the authorities.

This Republic, when it is most true to the principles on which it was set up by its founders, is NOT one nation under God. It is one nation under We the People, and the original motto *E Pluribus Unum* should be restored to our currency.

A real American does not bow, kneel, pray, grovel, or surrender to any external authority.

We are a society of free equals, not a society of servants who serve any monarch on Earth or in Heaven.

And it is essential to this spirit of individualism and liberty that every citizen be armed.

And your possession of arms should never be licensed or even known to any agency of king, government or ruler.

When the state knows who has the guns, then an invader can easily conquer the people by securing the surrender NOT of the people but just of their government, who will then quickly pick up all the guns - as the Nazi occupiers did in Denmark.

Answer 5

No tests needed.. seems here in America we think it is our God given right to carry a weapon... and then we mourn, oh how we mourn when some disturbed person kills a whole lot of people. We are such hypocrites.

Wouldn't it be better to try and find a way to stop0 the killings? No, not here.. we are all cowboys.. anyone can carry a gun.. any one can kill. It is much harder to sign up for welfare payments.. to have an operation.. to get a passport.. but a lethal weapon.,.. hell no.. arm the whole country.

The problem is our politicians who think they might lose a vote if they go against the powerful NRA and the gun lobby... it is all those religious people who say thou shall not kill, but have a gun in every room of their house.

We reap what we sow.. and we sow murder. Isn't our freedom great.. we can kill whomever we want, whenever we want. WE are not free if we have to carry a weapon to protect ourselves from ourselves.

By the way, I haven't heard President
Bush on television expressing his " deep sorrow" over the hundred and twenty Iraqis that died yesterday in his little war.. where is all that false sorrow.

Answer 6

You don't have to take driver's ed to buy a car....

You have to have a concealed handgun liscense to carry a weapon. The CHL class includes weapons training.
And what insurance would you need for a weapon. I have a personal property insurance for mine incase of fire or theft....

Answer 7

driver's ed is undesirable - been there, performed that. Mine replaced into 2 hours an afternoon at school for a month, and after classification we had an hour of utilising. In a motor vehicle with 3 different individuals (and the instructor) that I knew, yet no longer nicely. My brother replaced into fortunate adequate to have a family members chum as an instructor; I had a guy that I did know yet he replaced into quite undesirable. He advised me quite a few cases that "I wasn't the strongest driver interior the vehicle" -- i did no longer have lots adventure past -- and purely made me experience extremely valueless and nervous on an identical time as utilising. We additionally had an afternoon the place we had to force to a city and *in* the city - a huge deal for united states youngsters - and we had to bypass to the mall and cling out. of direction none of my acquaintances have been there, so I purely replaced right into a 0.33 wheel in a team of girls. yet, I survived. i'm a lots extra beneficial driver now and the adventure replaced into first rate. The jack gave me a B for utilising skills, yet I earned an A interior the class, so no longer undesirable. The deal is that, till you do stay in a extensive city with public transportation, you are going to ought to force sometime. And as you would be on your make certain's insurance for now, having driver's ed decrease than your belt will shop them lots while the time comes which you will get your license/motor vehicle. And lower back, the adventure is solid for you. look into the extraordinary section: that's in ordinary terms a week. you in ordinary terms have 2 days left. it must be lots worse: it must be *longer*. Do what you ought to do to get by skill of; convey computing device paper and doodle or write a tale in case you lose interest. herald a sweatshirt and take a seat on it to make the chair extra delicate. For the migraines, I sympathize - i'm getting them too. purely make certain to have the meds with you once you bypass to classification. in case you get them extremely badly, communicate on your instructor approximately it and probably they're going to enable you slip out and come to a decision in case you have one. yet do your terrific to stick it out for the subsequent 2 days, and then it will be at the back of you.

Answer 8

I didn't have to take drivers ed. If I had I could have foregone the driving portion of the test at the DMV but it wasn't mandatory, my folks taught me to drive just like my boyfriend taught me how to shoot a gun.

Answer 9

okay what state are you from? in my state there is a lengthy process to have a permit to carry a firearm, as for the sale that is up to the person selling the gun to preform a background check and make a personal opinion as to whether or not they are suitable to own a firearm.

Answer 10

Right?! I agree completely.

This should be part of a strict background check with a 7-day waiting period. Maybe also show a big-game hunting license (education required) in order to purchase certain high-powered guns?