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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  I don't support MANDATORY firearms training, but I think if public schools ARE TO SERVE THE PUBLIC, it should be offered as an elective at the High School level to 16year olds and older. |
Most high schools don't even offer driver's ed anymore. If you want to drive before you turn 18, you need to go pay for a private program, at least locally. I doubt there's room in the school budget for such a program but I certainly thing that before you can purchase a firearm, you should be required to take a class in proper handling and safety, just like before you're allowed to take a test for motorcycle licensing, you have to take a class.
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Has force worked on drugs?
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No, but that's because we both agree there's no such thing as a war on drugs, we have a media campaign on drugs, we talk about it a lot, we really don't do a damn thing about it. Same with illegal firearms. Sure, once in a while they'll offer a reward for turning in illegal guns but otherwise, they don't even make much of an effort.
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What is sad about our society is the lack of trust the people have in the government, and the lack of trust the government has in the people, WHILE STILL CLAIMING to be "of the people, by the people, for the people".
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No, what's sad are the people who think they can take their handgun and hold off the "evil government hordes at their door". They can't. I don't care how many guns you have, if the government decides they're taking you down, you're dead. Period. Ask the idiots at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Their arsenal didn't protect them at all and the whole "you can pry my gun from my cold, dead fingers" nonsense is childish.
Maybe if more people actually tried to CHANGE the government instead of hunkering down in foxholes pretending they can fight the government, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in.