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Should a person with no gun knowledge, no understanding of basic gun safety, be allowed to have a gun?
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Should a person with no child knowledge, no understanding of basic child safety, be allowed to have children?
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Kind of upsetting, that idea, isn't it? People all over would be screaming that you have NO RIGHT to decide for them about what they do in their lives!
And why would you believe you have the right to interfere with one decision, and not the other?
Bottom line: Do you believe that you (through the agencies of government) ought to restrict people's decisions based on fears of what they might do?
and how far should that power extend? Which decisions are you comfortable with letting people make on their own, without having to meet some arbitrary standard to prove to you (again through the angecies of government) that they should be
allowed to choose their own destiny?
I say hands off. Run the risks, and if needful, pay the price. Nothing in this world is completely safe, not even the grave. Punish people for what they do, when it is wrong, but not before then.