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AZ: License and registration, please: How regulating guns like cars could improve safety
Submitted by: Mark A. Taff
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Americans regulated cars to make them safer and reduce deaths. Use this as a model for gun reform.

In the midst of the Senates failure to agree on measures designed to tighten controls around the sales of firearms, a new idea is emerging.

In June, U.S. Representative Jim Hines, a Democrat from Connecticut, appeared on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah and said, we ought to probably test people and make sure there is as much licensing and regulation around a gun as there is around an automobile.

Comment by: kangpc (9/3/2016)

Two sociologists get together for a conversation and decide to revive this dead horse and beat on it some more.
The inherent human right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in and protected by the Second Amendment to our Constitution.
Driving a vehicle on the public roads is generally accepted to be a privilege subject to state control.
But just as every valid driver's license issued in our country is accepted as legitimate by every state, so too must every weapons permit issued in this country be recognized by every state.
Otherwise our federal system begins to crumble and collapse.
So let the politically driven sociologists retreat to their cave and continue their verbal onanism. But pay them no heed.

Comment by: jac (9/4/2016)

Sounds reasonable.

You don't need a drivers license or background check to buy an automobile.

You do not need a driver's license unless you want to drive said vehicle on public roads.

You do not have to license or register a vehicle unless you want to drive it on public roads.

A drivers license is valid in all 50 states.

You can buy a car if you are a convicted felon.

There are no restrictions on horsepower or how fast a car can go. Therefore, there should be no limits on automatic weapons.