RVN War Dawg wrote:Weapons training is a must before carrying any firearm. I don't have a problem with a training requirement before firearm ownership. We require a drivers license. How many idiots do we still see on the road?
There three major problems with your analogy:
- Owning (keeping) a car and driving (bearing) it is not a constitutionally enumerated right.
- Keeping and bearing arms is a constitutionally enumerated right.
- If you can justify mandated training before the right to bear arms can be exercised, then you can justify mandated literacy before the rights to free speech, religion, and assembly can be exercised. The cynic in me says that literacy ought to be required before you can vote, but we know from Jim Crow that literacy requirements would simply be used to keep down people who have a stake in the exercise of justice. Where does it stop?
Mandating training before a citizen can exercise a constitutionally guaranteed right is a very, VERY bad idea..