How does a background check control your choices? It gives the gov't a defacto list and puts me on it. if there is a state of emergency, guess who's door they can come knocking on.. like they did during katrina You choose to buy a gun, if you have a clean background you can get a gun. No control there, you got your gun. It might delay your choices but it doesn't controll them. Delayed is denied. perhaps temporarily but still denied. A right delayed is a right denied -MLK As for carrying in public, I am all for that with the right permits and training. PR courts just ruled permits unconstitutional Now for the imminent threat, I don't know you. So that would have to be a judgment call on my part. If I see you openly carrying a gun I can only make 2 assumptions, that you are a law abiding citizen allowed to carry or you are a nut that is looking for the right opportunity to take out the maximum amount of people. perhaps you shouldn't make assumptions. Even as a law abiding citizen do I want everyone to have the opportunity to make the split decision to shoot or not shoot if they see a crime being committed. I can't remember where I saw the article but a couple months ago there was a woman that shot a guy running out of Wal-Mart because he was shoplifting. She shot a warning shot in the air. she did not shoot the guy. Now I hate crooks as much as the next guy but did that guy deserve to have her be his judge and executioner. And she wasn't. This is an isolated incident and it didn't even happen the way you mistakenly believe. your facts did not happen. but the easier it is to get and carry a gun the easier it is for incidents like this to happen. There you go again. There are states in the U.S. where you don't need any permits to buy and carry openly or concealed and there are no news stories of this happening. ths "easier for this to happen" about somethign that didn't happen totally invalidates your whole premise. Look, I am not necessarily against what you are saying. Good now hush. LOL kidding. I believe people should be able to buy and carry guns, I just think there has to be some regulation and training. By the group of people who wish to disarm us. If you are held accountable for your actions there is no need to have any extra regulation. There are states that do not require/have the regulation/training that you wish for and guess what, it's not the OK corral. Gun laws seem to promote crime vs inhibit it. You're fearing hypotheticals and the reality is opposite of your hypotheticals. Were gun carry isnt' prohibited crime is lower. I don't want to run out of a store one day because I am trying to catch up to a friend and have some so called good samaritan plug me in the back because they thought I was stealing something. and that doens't happen in states where it's legal to carry. paranoid much? You can make the penalties tougher on people that do this but that doesn't do me a whole hell of a lot of good if I am dead. don't need to make the penalties tougher, it doesn't happen and the penalties that exist are enough. This is not a real problem where people are carrying guns. Remember, in order to get some of what you want you have to make concessions to the ones that don't want to give you anything. wait what? It's not about what i want, it's about human rights, to self defense. some states have them. all states should have them. While you feel you have the right to carry to make yourself feel safe the people around you have the same right to be in public and not feel threatened by a bunch of people walking around with visible guns. If they feel threatened by a holstered weapon or a weapon not pointed at them, the issue is in their minds solely. This is where compromise comes into play. Perhaps we should compromise your human right to free speech.. because people feel offended.. you know, cuz someone wrote trump in chalk.. perhaps we should have everywhere be quiet and you just have free speech boxes to stand in and talk.. you know compromise so people feel safe. As franklin said, those who compromise freedom for security deserve neither.
