[Ditter]

Oh stop! You got your panties in a wad when I was not talking about you or your children. You and yours are as accustomed to guns and what they are capable of as me and mine. I am talking about the children of people like some of the ones I know. Most of them have never seen a gun except for what they see sticking out of a policemans holster. I thought a friend of mine was going to faint when she saw my husbands pistol laying on the table. “Is it real?” She whimpered. It would take years of shooting to make her children gun safe, a 6 week course would not be enough.

[TXnMA]

"I am talking about the children of people like some of the ones I know. "

Hey, you and I are on the same side. I was merely trying to clarify the issue at hand -- which you seem to be continuing to cloud -- By focusing on people like the ones you mention above -- who are most unlikely to go through the training and education to get a CHL in the first place..

We agree that the world is full of irresponsible idiots. That is, unfortunately, where we must live -- and survive.

However, the admitted presence of hoplophobic imbeciles and other incompetents is no excuse for allowing zones to exist where we are deprived of our God-given right to self-defense.

The proposed law allows those of us who are responsible to exercise our rights. It does not encourage hoplophobic, underaged incompetents to start carrying guns.

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BTW, you gave me a nice chuckle. Your 'friend' reminds me of the young airline clerk who shrieked and recoiled from my (opened-for-inspection) lockable hardcase -- exactly as if she had seen a snake -- when I asked her to verify that my (fieldstripped) handguns were safe to transport... ;-}