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   From: jones@fobahor.com   
      
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   On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 22:19:53 -0700, in talk.politics.guns BTR1701   
    wrote:   
      
   >No, it wouldn't. The moron I was replying to-- and which context you cut   
   >out-- was saying that you'd have to pass a yearly psych test to *keep*   
   >your gun. Which is where I said, "Sorry, officer. My gun was stolen" in   
   >response to some bureaucrat suddenly declaring me mentally unfit so he   
   >could confiscate it.  No, it could also mean you recovered it.   
      
   Well, *any* law depends on general compliance; that's essentially the   
   difference between civilization and a short, brutal existence.  The   
   psych test won't work; however, a gun owner has to keep his or her   
   nose clean and this should be well-defined at the national level.  The   
   days of "my guns are none of your business" are quickly ending; gun   
   rights with no responsibility have pretty well failed on every   
   possible level.   
      
   Most of the time, if a person will choose a life of violent crime,   
   they have done so by age 21; they'll usually have a pretty long record   
   by age 25.  Idea being that people don't *usually* change radically...   
   not suddenly, anyway.   
      
   We'd do a lot better to tighten the reporting.  What, exactly,   
   constitutes a reported infraction?  That was the issue with the   
   Sulphur Springs shooter; article 132 of the UCMJ simply defines   
   assault and the conviction was a misdemeanor... under existing law it   
   did not have to be reported.  In my opinion, any infraction that   
   revokes (or might revoke) a drivers license (DWI, for example) should   
   also remove guns; if you can't be trusted with a car, I'd prefer that   
   you not have guns, either.   
      
   But, as far as a yearly qualification... that's a waste of time.   
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