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You are starting way further down the rabbit hole than most here. You are accepting the premise that government's responsibility is to provide safety for the citizenry. I reject that premise. Government is for the intended purpose of promoting life, liberty, and property. In promoting those three, one cannot be at the expense of another. To deprive of liberty in the area of arms is to deprive of both property and life.
The divide between your point of view (which accepts restrictions such as concealed carry permits and background checks) and my point of view (which recognizes them as infringements) is a difference in the understanding of Natural Rights and the purpose of Government. You have stated multiple times that it is reasonable to put up certain barriers to do as much as we can to prevent these things from happening. We both seem to agree that nothing can be done to completely prevent these kinds of events.
My fundamental disagreement with your point of view is basically around the purpose of Law. The Law is to be a deterrent to evildoers, but only insomuch as it does not restrict life, liberty, and property. The law should be very harsh for anyone who violates these for another person. So a quick death should be in order for someone who commits murder and so forth. When the law begins to restrict the liberty of the individual, regardless of how noble its intentions, it has violated the basic responsibility of government.
Before you again raise the issues of airbags, concealed carry permits, alcohol, or anything else, understand my point of view. Those regulations are infringements on liberty and property. They are outside of the parameters of a properly functioning government. The fact that society at large has acquiesced to these regulations does not make them proper.
My man! If I want my Liberty super-passionate and rough, it's @wsfiredude or @noway2 or @Diablos or @drypowder or a handful of other great CFFers.
But if I want it with candles, soft music, satin sheets and a lot of foreplay....
......you gotta purdy mouth.
No homo.
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