re guns in backcountry no thanks in article b aad c e uinpla npl uiuc edu reimer uinpla npl uiuc edu paul e reimer writes in article qkftjinnoij cronkite cisco com pitargue cisco com marciano pitargue writes stuff deleted about causes of people in er and your factoid about shooting victims in the er count how many come in due to automobile accidents and automobile crimes maybe we should outlaw cars marciano pitargue cisco com there are a lot of automobile accidents but atleast there is some regulation to try to combat this when i got my drivers license i had to take a drivers safety class tennessee at least does not require any sort of safety class to get a driver s license all that is required is one twenty question quiz and to drive a car around the block without crashing i have to be licensed to drive in all probability no you don t you are required to be licensed to drive on public roads a license is not necessary on private property my car must be registered most states do not require the registration of cars that are not used on public roads those that do california i know of do so for tax purposes more than anything else i must at least where i live have liability insurance on both myself driving and my car if someone else had an accident with it many states do not currently require this and most again only make this requirement for public roads a car sitting unused is not required to have insurance hmm wouldn t manditory saftey classes registration of both the owner and gun and manditory liability insurance be nice for gun owners the two are not the same as i pointed out above there are significant difference between making rules for use on public property and making rules for ownership the other half of the objection is trust similar things to this have been tried in many local jurisdications across the country and have been abused in far too many cases safety classes which are never sheduled never funded or only one or two is held a year for a limited number of participants registration lists in new york chicago and california have been used for confiscation many gun owners would in theory support these planes although the numbers overwhelmingly show that competence is not the problem that intentional misuse is they ve simply seen it abused and are leery of the next person who comes down the pike with a reasonable suggestion they ve already seen abused david veal univ of tenn div of cont education info services group pa utkvm utk edu i still remember the way you laughed the day your pushed me down the elevator shaft i m beginning to think you don t love me anymore weird al
