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  • plantmoretrees@lemm.eetoNews@lemmy.world•Democrats vote against gun control in surprise move
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    2 months ago

    Gun control would make so much more sense if we treated guns like vehicles.

    Want to drive a car?

    New driver?

    Pass a test, and get a provisianal license to operate safely with experienced users in your company.

    Test to prove proficiency, ensure you don’t have any restrictive health issues that could impact your safe operation of the unit, validate your insurance coverage and you get a standard operators permit.

    Need to use the big equipment?

    Take some additional safety courses, beef up your insurance and prove you can handle it - with regular check ins and enhanced supervision and you get a commercial license.

    Want to do something different, like the gun equivalent of a motorcycle? Another test and license endorsement to use.

    Main theory - you can have anything you want but agree to prove and maintain proficiency and be mentally and physically able to operate it. Regular check ins to ensure your abilities do not wain and annual registration.

    This is not crazy. If it works for cars, semi trucks, motorcycles etc - it should work for deadly weapons.

    And remember, we have handicapped drivers, we have people on probationary permits etc, breathalyzer start switches, etc ……there are lots of places for reasonable accommodations to the infringed and those with limited or restricted capacity.

    But to just turn the keys of a semi truck with a double trailer over to 16 year old with near sighted vision?

    They’d say you are crazy.

    But anyone of legal age can walk in, grab an AR-15 and disappear into the woodwork for the rest of their lives with capacity for mass assault and no one does anything about it.