Afaque wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 10:39 am
Uff buddy when are we going to catch up with America
where there is a gun license given to everyone to protect themselves and their family. When are these smart cards going to make it.
It's not quite the paradise you imagine, depending on where one lives. Each state is different. Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland are especially bad. Chicago, Washington DC, and New York City have their own very restrictive laws. These places usually require a license or permit to own guns. New Jersey's registration (they don't call it that, but that's what it is) even requires police to register their guns with the local police, including their service weapons!
California is bad and Oregon just passed an extremely restrictive anti-gun bill. The Federal government cannot get most anti-gun bills through Congress, so the Administration makes its own restrictive rules, which seldom make any sense from a public safety perspective, but are intended to nibble or bite away the citizen's freedoms in big chunks or small, whatever is available.
The Supreme Court has made some pro-gun rulings lately, but states and cities turn around and pass new restrictive laws that must then be fought through the courts to get resolution and restore one's rights, and then the process starts all over again.
The anti-gun crowd is pretty much the same everywhere!
States that are more rural tend to be more respectful of the citizen's gun rights. But one cannot assume that this is so. Nebraska, for example, is very handgun adverse, and Colorado has passed restrictive laws lately. (This is because Colorado is California's colony.) New Mexico has restrictions, too, although not as bad as some other states. One needs to be aware of these differing laws when traveling, or some serious problems might result.
My own state is quite respectful of gun rights, one of the best, if not the best. No permit is needed to own or carry, concealed or openly. Contrary to the ideas of some, we don't live in anarchy or violence that anti-gun people predict. The majority here own guns and appreciate them.
I would wish that India would be respectful of citizen rights and human rights like some parts of the USA, but not like others, where there's not a very large difference.
I have lived in two of the worst states, and while there were good things about living in each of them, I did not feel free. I did not bring any handguns to those states when I lived there, but secured them in a large safety deposit box in another place -- the second time, for over five years.
I could never be completely happy in either of those places because of the negative gun environment and attitudes, and because they did not have Western USA attitudes about living. (California, Oregon, and Washington State are not Western states, they are West Coast states -- a big difference!) Believe me, every day I thank my Maker that I was blessed to come back West and live where I live. I wish that all my gun brothers and sisters everywhere could enjoy the same basic human rights, which include gun rights, that I enjoy.
Every nation must do this in its own way, but it must do it! Frederick Douglass, the famed former slave and abolitionist in the 19th Century, believed that for everyone to enjoy freedom and equality, each person needed to have the ability to access the "three boxes": The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box -- those are the words he used. I believe that he was, and is, right.
where there is a gun license given to everyone to protect themselves and their family. When are these smart cards going to make it.