Guns, Carried Openly or Concealed, Threaten Our Safety

[iverglas]

68. it must be the time of night

The woolly-headedness around here is becoming suffocating.

A major REASON why I OPPOSE allowing people to wander around in public with guns is that THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT.

Cripey cripes.

Bus drivers are tested, have to have special licences, are limited in the hours a day/week they may drive the buses and are visible to the general public as bus drivers and observable by the general public as they drive their buses, and have employers that oversee their work and ensure they comply with the hour limitations, observe them to make sure they are not drinking or doing drugs and are subject to civil and criminal liability if they fail to oversee the drivers properly, etc. etc. etc.

And that's just bus drivers.

Joe at the mall with his gun? Not so much, eh?

Pardon me for thinking that you wanted to ban the practice outright.

Sorry you've confused yourself, but you had it right the first time. And where I am, the practice IS banned outright, except for individuals who need to carry firearms in the course of specific types of employment.

You didn't seem to have much faith in oversight a few posts ago.

Since no one can tell for sure whether anyone is suicidal (or suffering from a variety of other psychological disorders, or the owner of a hair-trigger temper, or just plain rotten), why would anyone be permitted to wander around in public with a firearm?

I'm afraid I can't possibly follow your mental process in that one, but I'll try to help.

There is no oversight for me to have faith in.

That was my point.

Clearer?


typo