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UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing
Firefalcon writes "The UK Government launched Thursday the 'Your Freedom' website, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, to 'identify laws that should be repealed.' In a recent tweet, Police State UK pointed out an article in the New Statesman which appeals for people to call on the Government to repeal the ill thought-out Digital Economy Act that was rushed through Parliament without sufficient scrutiny. While part of the Act is regarding the digital TV switchover, other sections allow for users to be restricted or disconnected from the Internet at the behest of copyright owners, which goes against the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' that has been in place since the Magna Carta."
Not much, since you didn't understand but then I'm not responsible for your lack of wit. I don't support any mandatory registration for guns, but I support mandatory training and stringent exams for any would-be owner covering technical issues, legal issues and handling proficiency. Firearms require discipline to be properly used and stored, and I'm fine with every owner to go through that. If they're determined, they'll go through. If they don't, they won't. A firearm you don't know how to use is a useless firearm.
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.
I don't support any mandatory registration for guns, but I support mandatory training and stringent exams for any would-be owner covering technical issues, legal issues and handling proficiency. Firearms require discipline to be properly used and stored, and I'm fine with every owner to go through that.
How can you have mandatory training for new gun owners without mandatory registrations? At least, you would have to certify/register the prospective gun owners themselves (if not the guns), and give them some kind of certified guning license with their pictures on it, that they would be required to show, to not just the dealers, but even the private individuals that they'd buy their guns from (since in most States, third private gun sales are perfectly legal, they just don't require any of the checks that a registered gun dealer would do).
Also, training usually solves the knowledge issue. Is this really the problem here? Knowing what to do under exam conditions is different than actually doing the right thing when you go home and no one else is looking. Also, I don't think your suggestion would address the bigger problem of criminals/idiots/untrained people getting guns illicitly through their friends and/or getting guns through the black market.
You've not thought out your argument too well. So you want all this mandatory stuff for gun owners, but no mandatory registration. Just think for a second - how will the government ensure that gun owners have been through this mandatory training? Oh wait - your idea is that gun owners will just do that. There has to be mandatory registration, otherwise the rest of your cunning plan is useless posturing. Also, gun owners should undergo regular (6-month maximum) psychological tests, as a gun owner, no matter how responsible they usually are, just takes a single rejection (from their job, wife, hooker, whatever), and they can (and do) take their shiny toys to the nearest clock-tower and start killing the fuck out of people, something no society needs to go through on a regular basis. I think the current system is fine - demonstrate to the police why you need a gun, get one, and then undergo checks to make sure you know how to store it correctly (locked in a cabinet). Where's the problem with that?
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You loserboys never cease to amaze me with your lack of intelligence. If you undergo firearm training, you get a certificate that says you have been trained and passed your exams. To the government, it means you are certified to own a gun - not that you actually have one.
Criminals will get their guns no matter what. They're outlaws, by definition they don't obey the law.
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.
In the mid-1950s, Chinese Chairman Mao noticed that the revolution was getting a little stale (after having purged and killed all the productive people after winning in 1949).
So he announced a campaign to have people come forward with new ideas and reforms to get people excited again about the new government. "Let a hundred flowers bloom! Let a thousand ideas break free!"
Some people came forward. And spoke out about the problems. And suggested reforms and solutions.
The communists rounded them up and put them into slave labor prison camps, for their re-education and the redirection of their labor for the people's benefit. There may still be a few remaining alive, left in the Chinese re-education camps.
I remember this whenever the government (Which government? Any government. Any group of men with guns that have permission to kill you) invites its citizens to come forth with suggestions for improving the way that they do things.
If you have ideas to reform and improve government operations, for God's sake, don't tell anyone. Quietly and discreetly discuss your ideas with others who have the power and authority (not necessarily the same thing) to make it happen. Just do it. Make your changes invisible and inevitable.
This doubly applies to people working in corporations.
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