Under long-standing English law, there has been the concept of “Persons of Virtue” (well, it used to be that way in Merry Olde England). As I recall, Malcolm and others (Holbrooke? sp?) have described this. There are clearly individuals who should not have the LEGAL ability to have a gun (felons, small children, insane people...). Of course, the main problem is that the criminals will not obey that any more than they would obey any other law.
How do you define “insane”? It should be fairly obvious, but when we have groups like AMA, the American Psychiatric Association etc coming close to categorizing those of us who own guns as somehow “not right in the head”, I’m not so sure any more.
In the end, I as a Florida CCW holder (I live in Miami) would rather be able to exercise my right to self defense. I have the utmost respect for most of our police, but it is still true that:
“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”
Here in Covington County the the police are at least 1/2 hr out where we live.On our app. most folks were puttin’ varmit huntin’ for a reason it seems.When I went to get mine the lady just told me flat out to put Self Preservation on it.Thought that was funny.Would figure 90% of the folks here carry something.It’s now the end of hunting season so some deals can be had.People here sell over the local radio station.
party line