Colorado theater shooting

[hellgremlin]

There are approximately a similar number of firearm related deaths as there are vehicular related deaths in the US each year yet you need to prove that you can capably operate a vehicle for the safety of yourself and other road users. Why the hell isn't there a similar licencing process if you want to own a gun?

As a Canadian with a FAC (Firearms Acquisition Licence) I have some input on this. When I went to take my test, this was exactly what I had to do - demonstrate that I could safely operate a firearm. This involved stuff like constantly keeping your barrel pointed in a safe direction, and never violating this rule. One fellow got shit-canned during our group exam because he violated this rule for a split second, and swept the barrel across the body of another test-taker, which the instructor swiftly pounced on. There was intense, intense coverage of the rest of the basics: know how to recognize and operate a safety, know which guns LACK a safety, know your trigger discipline, know your range discipline. Know how to make a found firearm "safe." The washout point on the written and practical tests was 80% - score below and you don't get your license. I passed at 96% and lost points for being unable to identify the racking safety on a pump-action shotgun.

I'm not sure if this is still accurate at all, but I read somewhere that Canada has more per-capita guns than the US (and a fraction of their gun murders.)

I firmly believe that Canada's intense emphasis on gun safety training during the licensing process is behind this disparity. I am not aware of similar mandatory gun safety-awareness programs existing in the US.

[Don Rumata]

Translation: I am white and not married, so it does not affect me in the slightest. You are indeed a psychopath.

You start giving a fuck about every human life and get back to me. I'm not heartless, I just don't have the capacity to really care about people I don't know at all.

Yep, definitely a psychopath.

[Varcaus]

Translation: I am white and not married, so it does not affect me in the slightest. You are indeed a psychopath.

You start giving a fuck about every human life and get back to me. I'm not heartless, I just don't have the capacity to really care about people I don't know at all.

Yep, definitely a psychopath.

So you care about people you dont know? wat

[Jason Marshall]

There are approximately a similar number of firearm related deaths as there are vehicular related deaths in the US each year yet you need to prove that you can capably operate a vehicle for the safety of yourself and other road users. Why the hell isn't there a similar licencing process if you want to own a gun?

As a Canadian with a FAC (Firearms Acquisition Licence) I have some input on this. When I went to take my test, this was exactly what I had to do - demonstrate that I could safely operate a firearm. This involved stuff like constantly keeping your barrel pointed in a safe direction, and never violating this rule. One fellow got shit-canned during our group exam because he violated this rule for a split second, and swept the barrel across the body of another test-taker, which the instructor swiftly pounced on. There was intense, intense coverage of the rest of the basics: know how to recognize and operate a safety, know which guns LACK a safety, know your trigger discipline, know your range discipline. Know how to make a found firearm "safe." The washout point on the written and practical tests was 80% - score below and you don't get your license. I passed at 96% and lost points for being unable to identify the racking safety on a pump-action shotgun.

I'm not sure if this is still accurate at all, but I read somewhere that Canada has more per-capita guns than the US (and a fraction of their gun murders.)

I firmly believe that Canada's intense emphasis on gun safety training during the licensing process is behind this disparity. I am not aware of similar mandatory gun safety-awareness programs existing in the US.

Any education is voluntary. Alot of gunshop's wont sell to you until you take one of their classes or show that you have completed one somewhere else. These are way outnumbered by those that don't.

[Don Rumata]

There are approximately a similar number of firearm related deaths as there are vehicular related deaths in the US each year yet you need to prove that you can capably operate a vehicle for the safety of yourself and other road users. Why the hell isn't there a similar licencing process if you want to own a gun?

As a Canadian with a FAC (Firearms Acquisition Licence) I have some input on this. When I went to take my test, this was exactly what I had to do - demonstrate that I could safely operate a firearm. This involved stuff like constantly keeping your barrel pointed in a safe direction, and never violating this rule. One fellow got shit-canned during our group exam because he violated this rule for a split second, and swept the barrel across the body of another test-taker, which the instructor swiftly pounced on. There was intense, intense coverage of the rest of the basics: know how to recognize and operate a safety, know which guns LACK a safety, know your trigger discipline, know your range discipline. Know how to make a found firearm "safe." The washout point on the written and practical tests was 80% - score below and you don't get your license. I passed at 96% and lost points for being unable to identify the racking safety on a pump-action shotgun.

I'm not sure if this is still accurate at all, but I read somewhere that Canada has more per-capita guns than the US (and a fraction of their gun murders.)

I firmly believe that Canada's intense emphasis on gun safety training during the licensing process is behind this disparity. I am not aware of similar mandatory gun safety-awareness programs existing in the US.

NRA courses are pretty good in that respect. The course I have attended was pretty much the same you describe (with the exception that everyone has passed). The whole thing was hilarious, a bunch of gun nuts with closetful of guns and two of us eurofags all talking the test. Both of us scored 100% on a test, with next closest guy at about 75%. I then proceeded to qualify as Marksman, while wearing Obama '08 hat and t-shirt. The looks on their faces were priceless.

[F*** My Aunt Rita]

Any education is voluntary. Alot of gunshop's wont sell to you until you take one of their classes or show that you have completed one somewhere else. These are way outnumbered by those that don't.

It just hit me that we're both crazy and own firearms.

[Jason Marshall]

There are approximately a similar number of firearm related deaths as there are vehicular related deaths in the US each year yet you need to prove that you can capably operate a vehicle for the safety of yourself and other road users. Why the hell isn't there a similar licencing process if you want to own a gun?

As a Canadian with a FAC (Firearms Acquisition Licence) I have some input on this. When I went to take my test, this was exactly what I had to do - demonstrate that I could safely operate a firearm. This involved stuff like constantly keeping your barrel pointed in a safe direction, and never violating this rule. One fellow got shit-canned during our group exam because he violated this rule for a split second, and swept the barrel across the body of another test-taker, which the instructor swiftly pounced on. There was intense, intense coverage of the rest of the basics: know how to recognize and operate a safety, know which guns LACK a safety, know your trigger discipline, know your range discipline. Know how to make a found firearm "safe." The washout point on the written and practical tests was 80% - score below and you don't get your license. I passed at 96% and lost points for being unable to identify the racking safety on a pump-action shotgun.

I'm not sure if this is still accurate at all, but I read somewhere that Canada has more per-capita guns than the US (and a fraction of their gun murders.)

I firmly believe that Canada's intense emphasis on gun safety training during the licensing process is behind this disparity. I am not aware of similar mandatory gun safety-awareness programs existing in the US.

NRA courses are pretty good in that respect. The course I have attended was pretty much the same you describe (with the exception that everyone has passed). The whole thing was hilarious, a bunch of gun nuts with closetful of guns and two of us eurofags all talking the test. Both of us scored 100% on a test, with next closest guy at about 75%. I then proceeded to qualify as Marksman, while wearing Obama '08 hat and t-shirt. The looks on their faces were priceless.

I scored 90% on my NRA Handgun test and shot Marksman wearing an Obama shirt too. =D

[Don Pellegrino]

This thread is shit.

[Hast]

I have the liberty to lock this thread. Unless Don already did.

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[Don Pellegrino]

I have the liberty to lock this thread. Unless Don already did.

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I already did, but now it is double locked.