Re: Gun Legislation

["T&E" <cumming@idaho.tds.net>]

Well said.


>>Is it completely crazy to push for gun 
>>control in Idaho? Is it incompletely crazy?
>
>"Gun Control" - Yes.  
>
>Disclaimer - I'm very pro-gun.  And very pro-responsibility.  (Isn't it
crazy 
>anyone must assert that they are "pro-responsibility".  Oh well, welcome to

>the USA.)
>
>That said, "gun control" is a phrase with tremendous emotional
implications.  
>(Just like "assault rifle.")  The pro-gun side sees it as "gun
prohibition."  
>The anti-gun side asserts that it means only reasonable restrictions - 
>denying that elimination of guns is an ultimate goal (and for many - most?
- 
>elimination IS the goal).  I think any legislation presented as "gun
control" 
>is doomed to failure in Idaho.
>
>>I am not familiar w/ the current laws on gun ownership in Idaho.
>
>Then WHY do you presume we need MORE law?  Please research the current
laws.  
>And please remember law, by itself, does very little to prevent people from

>doing what they want to do.
>
>I'm not saying more law isn't any kind of possible answer, but that we
should 
>examine what we are trying to actually prevent and how we go about it.  
>Millions of minors possess and use firearms in a completely lawful manner. 

>Possession of firearms doesn't cause violence.  The problem is that some 
>minors (and majors) decide that violence is the Right thing to do.
>
>If you are sincere about proposing new legislation, please carefully
consider 
>the actual need and the actual effects.  We've got too many laws that do 
>neither.  "Gun control" legislation usually lives on emotion and not
reason.  
>(Example:  "assault rifle" ban will seriously reduce crime - when in
reality 
>the vast majority of crime is committed with firearms other than "assault 
>rifles".)
>
>And please remember that in a free society, some people WILL choose to
abuse 
>their freedom - no matter what.  I can't quote the source, but Freedom is
the 
>one thing you cannot have without giving it to all others.
>
>(And along those lines, everyone heard about the abuse heaped upon SUVs 
>because they are such large, menacing machines and cause more people to be 
>injured and killed in accidents.  Today, firearms.  Tomorrow, SUVs.  Next 
>week, everything sharper than a butter knife.)
>
>E. O'Daniel
>IDAHO
>