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NovaCop10 wrote:
snip... Also, firearms are much more regulated than the average private property item for obvious reasons.
What are these obvious reasons? I will take a shot
at what you mean..I assume you are implying that since firearms have the ability to cause death and harm if mis-used, more so than let's say a reclining chair.
Yet we do not see the government, either federal, state or local, attempting to control religion. Various people's beliefs in some god cause many many deaths each year, either by direct violence, or inciting others to violence, or ignoring medical treatment for minors, or what have you.
Why not background checks for religious services, after all, lot's of murderers justify their deeds as "god's" will. And many of those don't even use guns, some use box cutters, and aircraft.
How about background checks for hosting a discussion forum, or printing an independent newspaper, or better yet for creating a social group such as the Lion's Club, or Moose Lodge, hell wasn't Ted Bundy a registered democrat? Better start backgrounding(is that a new word?),all those pesky democrats(maybe not a bad idea:lol
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I don't speak for the VCDL, butI'm a member,although Ionly speak for myself. Regulating our Constitutional rights is wrong wrong wrong, that slippery slope has been pulling this nation down for decades. Thus I completely understand the opposition to gun laws of any sorts.
I am not oppossed to background checks for a CHP, but that is not restricting excercising of a Civil Right, IMO. But any kind of regulation making purchasing or carrying a weapon in plain sight more difficult should simply be done a way with.