Here in CT, you need 30 hours of classroom training and 40 hours of driving practice

[Nye Bevan]

before you can be trusted with a drivers license. You then are required to buy liability insurance and if you drive irresponsibly and recklessly you will lose your license and driving privileges.

This makes a lot of sense, because cars can be very dangerous and can injure and kill. Anyone who suggested that driver licensing and vehicle registration be abandoned, and that people with no training should be allowed to simply buy a car of their choice and start driving with no license, registration, or insurance, would be an irresponsible idiot. Right?

[snooper2]

1. CT is 5th in the nation for the strictest gun laws

you have to take a class to purchase a hand gun, 14 day waiting period for all gun purchases,


you know all this right?

[randome]

2. And you recognize the uselessness of state gun regulations, right?

Anyone can travel to any state and commit mass murder no matter what gun regulations are in place in that state.

If we're going to have better gun regulations, they need to come from the federal level.

[snooper2]

4. Yes, must come from federal level..

Just ensuring people use facts around here...

[randome]

6. I hear you.

[Edweird]

8. Because, as we all know, NOTHING gets past our impenetrable border.

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I mean, look how well the Federal regulations on drugs and immigration work.
Since there's only around 400,000,000 guns in private hands clearly there's only a teeny tiny subset of people that want them so demand would be easily managed......

[Bjorn Against]

7. And yet it is still easier to get a gun than a driver's license

Even in the state with the fifth strictest gun laws it is still easier to get a gun permit than a driver's license, that says something. We need stricter gun laws in this country, obtaining a gun should require a minimum 100 hours of class time and some serious exams to make people prove they know what it means to own a gun responsibly.

[slackmaster]

3. CT is also the only state that has a process for actively seizing firearms from people who are under

...restraining orders for domestic violence.

[cliffordu]

5. Washington state has a similar provision. IIRC.

[slackmaster]

9. It's a good idea, and I'm mystified that my own state (CA) hasn't enacted such a law

A lot of murder victims have restraining orders against their killers.

[Nye Bevan]

10. I imagine this is very difficult to enforce without a proper registration system.

When any abusive husband can drive down to VA and buy a few guns at a gun fair, who will even know that there are any guns to seize in the event a restraining order is taken out on him?