If I want a gun and carry just because I CAN, that is good enough for you?

[S_B_Jackson]

71. Goodness.....

Let's see....I was taught gun safety and after that I was taught to shoot by my decorated, WWII combat veteran grandfather who as a Top Kick in the US Army may well have taught your WWII combat vet father how to shoot. If so, he'd have remembered my grandfather's colorful language regarding the proper safe handling of firearms. This training was supplemented and augmented by his brother (also a WWII combat veteran who, for a squid, was a pretty damned-good marksman) by my aunt a WWII veteran (Women's Airforce Service Pilot) and also very good shot, my grandmother who did not serve in the military, but was a fairly accomplished shoter herself, my father (a combat veteran of Korea), my uncle (a Vietnam veteran), and my aunt all of them were part of at one time or another the hunting and shooting groups that I was part of as a child and as an adolescent. They do not share your views.

Indeed, since you're willing to submit the needed federally mandated paperwork, your identification, submit to criminal background check and verification that you have never been adjudicated as mentally defective, and that you have submitted your fingerprints for state records I support your right and ability to purchase a firearm and to obtain a CCW, to carry everywhere would then be legally permitted to carry a firearm, and I would have faith in your ability to do so responsibly.

If after all that, you choose not to carry? Fine. If you choose to rid yourself of them? Fine also.

I believe that point that you are attempting to make is that none of this is acceptable and that no one should be allowed to do so. Is that correct?