No you didn't. You just mentioned fingerprinting. What else?Okay what exactly are all there hoops you're referring to? Besides finger printing, what else?Right to own your first gun. I'm sure it's much easier after that.I cannot buy a pistol without a permit in my state
That permit process consists of mandated classes
A hefty fee
Being fingerprinted by local and state police
And I have to do it all over again every 5 years
So what?
Why should I have to jump through all those hoops, be fingerprinted like a common criminal pay upwards of $500 and have to do it every 5 years simply to exercise a Constitutionally guranteed right?
How much would you be whining if every Constitutionally guaranteed right was subject to the same licensing process
Maybe we should make people take classes, get fingerprinted and pay fees for a Fourth Amendment Permit
You can't treat all amendments the same. That's ridiculous. Obviously freedom of speech is completely harmless in comparison. It still however has limitations. It has limitations based on the consequences of law. We need to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Wouldn't you prefer to keep them out of hands of terrorists? How else would we do that?
I already told you some of the hoops I had to jump through and that it's every 5 years not just once
A right is a right as far as I'm concerned.
We have already seen that it is impossible to keep guns out of the hands of criminals so I don't see how making harder and more expensive for law abiding people to exercise their legal rights does anything to stop that
Oh Christ just because criminals still get guns, it doesn't mean we shouldn't pass laws that try to prevent it. That's like saying "well robbery still happens anyway. We may as well legalize it!"
No, we need store owners to shoot would be robbers. Robbers would think twice next time if it happened more routinely
-Geaux