For or against?

Yes this isn't something new... They were two classes if I remember correctly, one focused on hunters safety with a firearms (we used air rifles but it makes the point) and I believe they had another classes that more focused on bow hunting/safety and the techniques in field dressing animals. This was in middle school.

Everyone who took those classes came out very knowledgable about the subject because we were all VERY engaged in what was being taught. These classes from what I could gather had been taught long before I ever went to that school. The schools in the area had similar programs as well until it was stopped state wide :/

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Oregon has a terrible education system as well, this is the reason why those classes are no longer taught.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

lol I'm suprised that someone hasn't screamed bigot at you gunner k2.

I have to ask you this, what happens if they put your testing system into effect for buying guns and it comes to light that by their psychological tests they say you should not be able to own guns? Are you still going to take the word of a some head doc that you are unfit to own a gun?

Your ideas are illogical, putting people though a test to see if they are stable is not the answer because every test can be cheated on. All that does it make it harder for myself or any other sane intelligent American to own a gun. That doesn't keep it out of the hands of crazies because they like criminals will always have a source of such items.

I have no problem with back ground checks to make sure criminals aren't buying guns but psychological tests? Seems like a wasted effort.

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Originally Posted by ArrowHead

I agree, to a certain point anyway. There are already some psychological requirements in a way though, aren't there? Like, if a court finds you legally incompetent/insane, doesn't that prevent you from obtaining a gun or at least put a legal roadblock in your way?

Actually that is not true. Unless there has been a ruling that because of your mental state you are not allowed to own a gun, there is nothing stopping someone from buying one. Any violent criminal history involving a gun also will keep you from being able to buy a gun (as it should be). That background check they do is to make sure that you are not a felon and that you do not have a history of violent crimes even if the conviction was only on a misdemeanor charge.

I was speaking idiomatically.