I appreciate your comments though I may not totally agree. Longer waiting periods have proven to not really work. Consider: If I am the type of person to rush down and buy a firearm just because I am angry at my boss today then most times, with this type of person, he will be angry with his boss again and again. Or he will just be a person who has anger problems and will be angry with someone else 3,5,10,30 days later. There is no controlling human behavior in that fashion. I am sure there is someone somewhere in the world who a 10 day waiting person has stopped from harming someone with a firearm.

But on the other hand consider you are a wife or girlfriend who has an abusive husband or boyfriend. She broke up with him last week and he just called on the phone to tell her he is on his way to k**l her. She thinks she will reason with him but he breaks in and stabs her to death. There are numerous occasions where this exact thing has happened. Most likely he hasn't called her or simply shows up at her employment and tells the front desk that he is supposed to be picking her up for lunch. He is allowed into her work area and k**ls her and several others. This has happened before. I used to teach a class to state prison academy trainees on just this subject. In Colorado with its instant check system it isn't a problem. In California with its 15 day waiting period it could be a big problem. Imagine you are that woman. You know your husband is violent as he has beaten you up and put you in the hospital several times in the past. You want to buy a firearm but that will take 15 days. Now what. That is the real life of some of these women.

I doubt anyone will ever have a solution because this is not a gun problem. You have no doubt read several times about my brother and me taking guns on the school bus at 13 years old. Our teachers knew we had a pretty large firearms collection even then and would invite us to give demonstrations in the school. Others here have reported the very same thing. Except for big cities guns were all over in all homes. I can't begin to tell you how many homes I visited as a kid and would see a rifle or shotgun behind a door, just in case. In every situation we were taught by parents to never/ever touch any firearm without permission, a rule I follow to this day because of firearms training by my parents.

Imagine how many of our children would have/will be saved if only the Liberal h**ed NRA would be allowed to teach their child safety firearm class to school children. It is basic kids information about, if you see a gun leave it alone, don't touch, call an adult. Children are k**led in firearm accidents because they see people on television and in movies get k**led by the thousands these days. What could be wrong with a class teaching these impressionable children to not touch any firearm but call an adult? Yet the NRA is so h**ed by the Liberals that they seem willing to allow their children to be k**led rather than do anything NRA involved. Such a waste of common sense to my way of thinking.

You mention some of your homies k*****g each other with handguns or AK rifles. No offense meant and I am not totally disagreeing with you but many gang bangers don't use the AR or AK rifles in their daily gang activities. The gun is too heavy and too long to be used often. If you are positive that the AK was used then I will believe you. But it does not happen too often because the guns are fairly unwieldy and not capable of being concealed well. I have generally found that only in movies do you really see these weapons in the hands of gang bangers. Besides I thought Obama and Eric Holder sold all of the AK's and AR's to the Mexican drug cartels.

You mention securing the weapons. I know yesterday one of the Liberal posters pointed out that if my guns were stolen from my house and someone shot with that firearm I should be held responsible and go to court because my guns were not locked up enough. We have had National Armories broken into with M16's and medium machine guns stolen in the past and I am sure will be again sometime in the future. What will we do, put the commanding officer in prison because thugs broke into his armory?

My guns at the moment are locked up in 4 safes except for my carry gun. But they are locked behind the door to my home. Even if I do not have a safe I do have locks one my doors. If someone breaks into my house and steals my firearm there is no way I should be held responsible for their actions. Only in the case of firearms do Liberals want this to be enforced. Steal my knife and butcher people, no problem. Steal my locked vehicle by breaking a window and hot wiring the ignition and then driving my truck into a street load of people k*****g 30 and no problem. But steal my firearm and use it to k**l one person and I am, by Liberal thinking anyway, going to prison and deservedly so. My point is that Liberals want to put unnecessary rules upon firearms that are not on anything else. A crazy person can go down to a Walmart and buy two huge butcher knives. Then he can go right back into the store walking the aisles stabbing people in the back or neck. The k**ler can even seem to be a little bit nutty to the cashier and he will still be sold the knives. I am not suggesting that a crazy type person be sold a firearm.

I once refused a sale to a person who I thought should not own a firearm. He wasn't crazy nor did he make any threats toward anyone. To this day I can't tell you what the exact reason was in my mind. But after working in police and corrections for years you get a feeling of people. My feeling of this person was not to sell him a firearm. I have heard of other dealers doing the same thing from time to time. If a person doesn't look right or makes some comment that doesn't sound right then no sale.

Thanks for your comments,

Dennis