Reply To: Common Sense Gun Policies

Where does anyone get the whacky idea that requiring background checks, age limits, etc. is going to lead to the “government seizing all guns?” The Federal government doesn’t have the resources to go house-to-house grabbing everybody’s handgun, hunting rifle and shotgun, and nobody wants them too. Anyway, most gun regulations are established on the state level, so there is plenty of local control.

I’m surprised that people who have been raised on gemara and its logic can be so dense when it comes to figuring out logical consequences of everyday situations. Requiring a license and a background check to get a driver’s license doesn’t lead to the “government” seizing all cars. Having a court – after a judge’s order – temporarily impound your gun because you’re suicidal or just threatened your spouse is on the same level as getting your license suspended for drunk driving.

Would you let your ten-year-old drive your car on the expressway? The parts of the human brain that process judgment and impulse control don’t mature until at least twenty. Check the car insurance rates for teenagers versus those twenty years older if you have any doubts.

Nobody wants to “take everybody’s guns away.” Use some logic, folks. That’s what they were trying to teach in Yeshiva.