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I agree with the following quote. People should not be disarmed for those
reasons. They should, however, have to prove a minimal competence to
responsibly handle firearms. If it doesn't make sense to carry the right
to bear arms to its logical extreme as Michael Moore did when he asked why
no one was clamoring for the right to private ownership of weapons grade
plutonium, it logically also makes no sense to insist on the right for
every unscreened Tom, Dick, and Manson to have access to automatic firearms
on demand. Having your head blown off by your neighbor's psycho kid
while taking your kid to school is arguably more than an "imaginary or
trifling inconvenience".
>"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand advantages for one
>imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it
>burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy, except for
>destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are of such a nature. "
>Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria
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>Charles Kaucher
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