Thanks for the info DB Both interesting and sad. So you are saying in almost half the states in the union you need to both pass a written and actual test to drive a car (and pay for the privilege to boot), yet in half the country I can just walk into Walmart and walk out with a Glock or semi-automatic rifle with clips that hold dozens of rounds by just showing him a drivers license then legally take that weapon anywhere? OUCH!
We are the ONLY and I repeat ONLY industrialized first world country that has at LEAST one mass shooting a day And #2 is such a long way away from what we manage to "accomplish". But instead of doing something about it we have doubled down and make it easier and easier to kill one another with every more dangerous weapons.
I mean have people actually READ the 2nd Amendment. It start with the words "A well regulated Militia, being NECESSARY to the security of a free State" Militias were an 18th century necessity where the government needed private citizens to have guns and bring them when they were called. What was a necessity THEN is well covered by well armed entities like National Guard, national, state, local law enforcement .
The meaning of this Amendment has been perverted in the late 20th Century into a cry for Liberty and the right for the gun industry to make billions without any blood on their hands. When the Constitution was written there was a VALID reason for this amendment to exist. That reason no longer exists so why do we hold on to it so hard. Why? because we have been sold a very effective PR campaign that has linked guns to liberty. to the point where even the most reasonable measures are fought tooth and nail. The result of it guns are the #1 cause of childhood death. (19% of the deaths of children (1-18) as of 2020() Take a bow NRA
BTW- I don;t even want to take guns away from people. I just want to have owners to be licensed. To have proven they have a passing knowledge of how to safely handle the weapon they own. That only sane ADULTS can own them. And that Assault weapons, automatic pistols with large clips are outlawed because their only use is to kill people in large numbers...., and make weak people with little ****s feel big....ooops did I just go too far. I better go back and try and get a couple of hours more sleep. I have to be sharp...heading to the "Woods" and go to work. But is hard to rest easy when I know there are wacko's out there running FREELY around with weapons of mass destruction