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In reply to the discussion: If a CCW applicant has to take classes and pass tests... [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)62. Your post #25 has three problems: 1)I insulted no one- the groups mentioned are...
...indeed larded heavily with prohibtionists and/or their less extreme cousins, the
'royalist' gun control advocates- i.e. Michael Bloomberg. Mayor Mike had no problem
whatsoever handing out pistol permits to the rich and famous, and neither did
many members of his creation Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
2) You apparently didn't notice my putdown of the NRA's politics...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=152318
You may despise the NRA's politics (I certainly do)...
...or my oft-voiced dislike of them:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=53805
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002467295
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=152238
Manichean thinking will mess with your head every time
3) None of the groups you mention teach people how to handle guns
safely (or not handle them at all, as per the Eddie Eagle program).
To put it bluntly, they don't take this approach...
Safe Roads Alliance- A not-for-profit organization dedicated to saving lives
through better driving
http://www.saferoadsalliance.org/adv-driver-training
Safe Roads Alliance was formed in 2006 as a not-for-profit Massachusetts organization dedicated to promoting safer driving.
Safe Roads provides educational services to all drivers on different aspects of driving safety, including: issues confronting elderly drivers, maintaining a vehicle for safe operation, child restraint systems, seat belt usage, reducing driving distractions, and driver courtesy and reduction of road-rage.
One of our primary programs is to provide drivers of all ages with access to driver training that far surpasses classes taken to obtain a license. Closed-course, hands-on, advanced driver strategies and techniques are learned in a safe, controlled environment with one goal: to make all drivers better drivers. Statistically teen drivers are the most important group for this training, but it is our feeling that every driver can improve their skills and would benefit from this program.
through better driving
http://www.saferoadsalliance.org/adv-driver-training
Safe Roads Alliance was formed in 2006 as a not-for-profit Massachusetts organization dedicated to promoting safer driving.
Safe Roads provides educational services to all drivers on different aspects of driving safety, including: issues confronting elderly drivers, maintaining a vehicle for safe operation, child restraint systems, seat belt usage, reducing driving distractions, and driver courtesy and reduction of road-rage.
One of our primary programs is to provide drivers of all ages with access to driver training that far surpasses classes taken to obtain a license. Closed-course, hands-on, advanced driver strategies and techniques are learned in a safe, controlled environment with one goal: to make all drivers better drivers. Statistically teen drivers are the most important group for this training, but it is our feeling that every driver can improve their skills and would benefit from this program.
...they just keep saying the equivalent of: "Cars (guns) are awful and people shouldn't drive them", while acting as if they are morally superior to car (gun) owners.
IOW, they're a modern-day version of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
No thanks
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I vote yes, and add that LEOs should have to pass constitutional literacy tests.
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#1
And do you think the legislators all know how to fly planes and how they work?
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#8
Maybe it's like the Manhattan Project and the decision to bomb Hiroshima
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#20
Antigun types tend to not know what they're talking about and/or embrace ignorance
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2014
#18
See? There ya go being confrontational. Lacing your reply with commentary insulting to
flamin lib
Aug 2014
#25
Your post #25 has three problems: 1)I insulted no one- the groups mentioned are...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2014
#62
No, they don't say no one should have guns. You are parroting the NRA which you
flamin lib
Aug 2014
#69
As long as those owners are pre-approved by TPTB, and use only 19th C. technology
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2014
#71
The jibes of the politically ineffectual are more amusing than stinging
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2014
#78
Will you also be willing to apply this system to other dangerous rights, or equipment?
oneshooter
Aug 2014
#89