Gun control: Japan has it right

[NutmegYankee]

138. You make a lot of baseless assumptions about me.

I pointed out that your take on rights as a whole was wrong.

Background checks are fine as they serve to ensure that people who have had the right to bear arms removed by Due Process can't acquire them. That is in full compliance with the Constitution. As for responsibility, I store my arms correctly and I handle and use them responsibly. If you want to register them to ensure tracking in case of theft, OK. But if the intent is to impose taxes or publicly shame/harass/endanger owners, then I will oppose. I don't need and won't support going through annual tests. It serves as nothing more than a harassment of a lawful citizen for exercising a right. Imagine being forced to take a test to maintain your right to free speech each year. It's a mockery.

I think a ban on magazines over 10 rounds is reasonable. I'd even support banning the AR-15 and similar high powered rifles. But harassing owners won't fly with me. I have done nothing wrong and don't deserve to have to undergo burdensome tests or fees each year to exercise the rights my father, grandfather, and great grandfather enjoyed. All but one gun I own was passed down from them to me. I simply enjoy sport shooting (pistol competition) as did my father and grandfather (from whom I got into the sport) and hunting.

And yes, I'm politically extremely liberal.