One simple improvement to licensure, courses, etc, is to make it free.
Gun safety should be taught in high school universally, as a graduation requirement, for free, and adults should be able to take a course at the local school, also for free.
The LTC should require a (free) gun safety test, and should be free to apply for. Maybe a cost to replace if you need to do it before expiration, but renewals should also be (you guessed it) free.
I feel like the "free, mandatory gun safety" should have universal appeal.
With legal gun ownership, it is conceivable that literally anyone in the country could encounter a firearm at some point, regardless of how they feel about them. Anyone in that situation should know how to safely handle the firearm, ergo, mandatory universal gun safety education.
There are a lot of things that should be mandatory/universal that aren't, though. Like....why isn't literally everyone taught basic first aid?
like sure, of course even, but what does this have to do with guns? As a mentally ill person I find it so condescending that people want to bar my access to weapons over it.
Because mentally sound people don't shoot up schools. I have a mental illness too, I'm not saying we should ban mentally ill people from guns. I am saying we should prioritize mental health within our communities to prevent gun violence from happening.
I think most of these shooters are fascists, and kill people cause of that, not their mental illness which is used as a scapegoat so society doesn't need to confront anything except fucking over mentally ill people
One simple improvement to licensure, courses, etc, is to make it free.
Gun safety should be taught in high school universally, as a graduation requirement, for free, and adults should be able to take a course at the local school, also for free.
The LTC should require a (free) gun safety test, and should be free to apply for. Maybe a cost to replace if you need to do it before expiration, but renewals should also be (you guessed it) free.
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I feel like the "free, mandatory gun safety" should have universal appeal.
With legal gun ownership, it is conceivable that literally anyone in the country could encounter a firearm at some point, regardless of how they feel about them. Anyone in that situation should know how to safely handle the firearm, ergo, mandatory universal gun safety education.
There are a lot of things that should be mandatory/universal that aren't, though. Like....why isn't literally everyone taught basic first aid?
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Gun safety isn't the only thing. Mental health awareness needs to be a bigger factor in this country.
like sure, of course even, but what does this have to do with guns? As a mentally ill person I find it so condescending that people want to bar my access to weapons over it.
Because mentally sound people don't shoot up schools. I have a mental illness too, I'm not saying we should ban mentally ill people from guns. I am saying we should prioritize mental health within our communities to prevent gun violence from happening.
I think most of these shooters are fascists, and kill people cause of that, not their mental illness which is used as a scapegoat so society doesn't need to confront anything except fucking over mentally ill people