Licensing & Other Stuff
Armed Canadian looks at media distortions regarding guns.
LawDog on licensing and registration:
Any person who possesses a drivers license can drive on any public road on any state in the Union. They can drive on school grounds, they can drive on college campuses, and they can drive to any courthouse in the Union.
Tell me, Gun Grabber, that you want to license guns just like cars. You’ll let anyone with a gun license carry a gun anywhere they want to, in every State in the Union — just like a drivers license.
You’re a liar.
When someone asks you about licensing and registration, pick up a pen and a sheet of paper. Tear the paper in half and hand half to your questioner. Say “Okay, this pen is a gun. The paper I’m holding is my license and the paper you’re holding is the registration. Using only these two pieces of paper, explain to me just how you are going to keep me from shooting someone?”
April 19th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Tam and Dawg said it better than I did, so I’ll just relay a quip from a buddy of mine.
You know what would be awesome? If the federal government had a licensing system for guns, so that way when they decide that guns are illegal they can use the fact that I own guns to enter my home without a search warrant. That would be fucking cool.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I’m not sure I get the point.
A license to drive a car allows you access to any public road that is open to public traffic. A gun license that allows you to carry in any public area that is open to public carriage of guns wouldn’t provide a right to carry on private property. Nor would it allow you to carry on public property that is closed to the public carriage of guns (i.e. most college campuses).
Just because I have a driver’s license doesn’t mean a school has to let me drive on its grounds. Schools can close their grounds to car traffic (and often do) for all kinds of reasons. Schools can section off areas in which the public may not drive (but school officials can), and that happens on probably every college campus around.
The notion that a gun license could trump a school’s own decisions about where you can carry just doesn’t seem to have much correspondence in the car world.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I think that’s rather the point: no one really wants gun licenses to be like car licenses.
If schools have public roads (most do) then you can pretty much drive on them except when they shut them down for events and such.