Originally Posted by Rochard

And again with the rallying cry.

No one wants to take guns away from anyone. It's the same argument over and over again - Just apply some common sense here. Why is it tougher to get a driver's license than it is to purchase a firearm? We give kids courses on how to drive a car, but not a single class is required to get a firearm.

Legal owners aren't the problem? You bet your ass they are. The mother who purchased the assault rifle and other firearms that was used in the school shooting up in Mass... Clearly she was a responsable, legal firearm owner - the fact that the kid had known mental issues, was considered suicidal in high school, was unemployed, locked himself in a basement to play violent video games, and was obviously depressed had nothing to do with her being a responsable gun owner... The mother even said she was "loosing him"... And her idea of family bonding was with an assault rifle.

My father was a legal gun owner. He died 43 years ago. Where the fuck are his firearms? I don't have them. My step father doesn't have them. My mother doesn't have them. We have no idea who lives in the house we used to store them in. Legal gun owner, yet no one has any clue of what happened to his hand guns.

Brett, if you don't need a firearm to defend yourself... Then why get your panties all ruffled?