Hypothetical Question...

[stodg73]

I have a hard time believing anyone could come up with such a stupid scenario. (unless they are a democrap)

Not a stupid scenario, just a hypothetical question.


Please remember to keep it civil, no name calling, just lively discourse.

[cstone]

If a law was proposed stating that in order to speak or freely associate or practice your religion, or freely publish , one must first pass a two hundred hour class, 100 hours of lab work, and pass the same type of background and psychological tests that a teacher, social worker, paramedic, law enforcement, etc. must pass, would you support it?

See how this works?

[buffalobo]

I've reread my post and couldn't find where I said that the government should stay out of our lives or what laws should be taken away. Your hypothetical asked a specific question about what I would consider a draconian regulatory scheme based presumably on the notion that we as a nation would be safer with those rules. I disagree with the premise and defy you or anyone else to provide evidence that such strict regulatory oversight would produce the safety it promises. Speed limits are routinely disobeyed in throughout the nation, as are drug laws. Would you propose more laws making speeding even more illegal? How about we make possession of controlled substances super secret felonies?

The government is in our lives because we are the government. Groups of people decide how they want to improve our society and when enough people agree on something they try to use the power of the government to impose their will on the rest of us. Some laws are necessary, but most are just intrusive and manipulative. The only real product of laws is criminals. No one needs to pass a law telling anyone that they are free to do something.

Well said, as usual.

[Irving]

There are speed limit signs on my street, but I wasn't required to take any classes to utilize them.

[Graves]

Not a stupid scenario, just a hypothetical question.


Please remember to keep it civil, no name calling, just lively discourse.

It's pretty stupid.

[GilpinGuy]

So you are saying that the government should stay out of our lives, so we should take away laws for speed limits or drug use, as a comparison?

Please remember this is all hypothetical.

Yes.

[Graves]

Yes.

+1

[Skip]

What problem are you solving with this law?

Follow up: what happens when the criminals, crazies, and terrorists still find a way to get guns without taking your course/process? I have to believe that would continue because even complete gun prohibition hasn't been able to stop it.

[sniper7]

Are we going to get paid? The other you list are professions, we are buying a tool, not learning a new career.
would you hypothetically require the same type of classes to own a knife, a baseball bat, a can of potentially toxic or flammable spray such as spray Paint? Or to buy a car, a boat, an airplane? All those are deadly.

if any of these questions are strikingly easy, then your question should answer itself. If it doesn't I am inclined to believe a great amount of stupidity has engulfed your brain and Maybe you need some lab work and some classes.

[Gman]

It's a right. Put the same criteria on the other rights and try and rationalize the proposed strategy.