Originally Posted by
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Do you happen to know what those strict requirements are?
Right now in the US, unless you've been convicted of a felony, anyone with the money to buy a gun and get a concealed carry permit (a $20 piece of paper)can carry a pistol around with them almost anywhere they'd like. There are no accuracy tests, no crisis management tests, no mental stability tests. It is harder to get a license to drive a car than to own a gun.
When the issue comes up, people make false equivalencies and use straw man arguments like "drugs are illegal and people still get them" or "we should make baseball bats/fertilizer illegal too" or "Obamas gonna take our guns", and then the discussion goes silent. There's an incredibly large lobbying group for guns and gun rights, and they've used their power to grossly overextend the rights given by our 2nd amendment. They're powerful and they want to maintain the status quo.
That pretty much sums up our situation here in the US bro
