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To: rktman

“proper testing”

But who will test those giving the test? You really want to be tested by some Psychologist who actually wants to prevent everyone from having a firearm?

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty... and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer?

Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.”
~ Cesare Beccaria


57 posted on 05/29/2022 8:09:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

[[But who will test those giving the test? You really want to be tested by some Psychologist who actually wants to prevent everyone from having a firearm?]]

Zactly. But watch feckless gop rinos “compromise” with the left until The left get their foot in the door and get some kind of mandatory evaluations or something similar, and just like gay marriage, oncd they have a foothold, they will ramp up the assaults and the gop rinos will look dumbfounded, not understanding why the left “betrayed them” once again. It’s a long way till November, can our constitution survive that long? Biden is already,thinking about executive order


69 posted on 05/29/2022 8:35:38 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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