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In reply to the discussion: Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg: St. Pete Police [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)carrying a gun that she didn't have a permit to carry on her. Yes, she was a legal gun OWNER (as almost anyone in Florida is, since the requirements to simply own a gun are almost non-existent).
Are you taking issue with the fact that the police don't randomly search more people on the chance they may find something (like a national expansion of Bloomberg's "stop and frisk" ?
I REALLY don't get the point your making about this "she was a responsible gun owner, right up until she wasn't" stuff. I'd think you were arguing people should have to do something (pass a test, for example) to qualify to own a gun, but since I've already said I think that's a good idea, I can only guess that isn't what you're pushing at. Is what your getting at either that we should make the gun laws restrictive enough that only people who are really willing to put in a lot of effort should be able to have guns, or that no one should be allowed to have them and then we can be sure that those who aren't responsible with them won't have them either?