How Many Just Don't Know...

[XLMiguel]

It's always interesting to watch the reaction of an 'uniformed' person when you start explaining gun laws to them. The more thoughtful ones become semi-enraged when you explain it all to them (i.e. the stupidity/futility of it all), while the sheeple get flumoxed when they find out that there's no such thing as 'gun registration' in VA, and that common, ordinary citizens can get a CHP. I particularly enjoy pointing out the lack of blood baths & shoot outs over parking spaces to the later, while asking them if gun control is so effective, why isn't DC a much safer place than N. VA?. Go figure?:banghead:

The general ignorance & apathy regarding gun laws is the biggest single challenge to RKBA in the US, IMO.

 

[TechBrute]

This is Texas, and I'm pretty sure that most people know about it. A lot of people don't know the details, though.

 

[Sheslinger]

After all, she doesn't subscribe to Car & Driver and can't tell a catalytic converter from a cylinder head, but I'll bet she's aware that private citizens can get licenses to operate motor vehicles.

We know we would be driving growing up among kids who have cars in high school.

I really wish someone would have a regular TV talk show on federal and state gun laws and CCW. Otherwise, we learn from movies which only portray guns as tools of evil and even when they are portrayed as tools of good, is CCW or possession in the home ever mentioned as being perfectly legal?

I really hate to admit this but six years ago if I accidentally saw someone concealing a gun, I would probably call the cops. You also have to realize how many people are immigrants and have no gun rights where they come from, so they would not even imagine guns being perfectly legal to own by "ordinary" citizens.

Julie

 

[tcsd1236]

I'm sure the "right to drive" is not in the Constitution ONLY because the Founding Fathers could not conceive of such licensing!

They also didn't have a lot of publicly funded roads back then either; while the concept of publicly funded roads goes as far back as the Romans, most of the roads in our colonial were privately funded affairs that were toll roads to pay for repair and upkeep.