Billy O, you say, people 'SHOULD ALWAYS have the right to own a gun. Just like you SHOULD ALWAYS have the right to drive a car, and the right to vote. If you mess up, you lose those rights.' Only a point of clarification here. Owning a gun and voting are rights, driving a car is a privledge. A fine but significant difference. A right is something that you are born with, a privledge is something that must be earned. That is why it is okay to license drivers, but not gun owners. To license gun owners would be like requiring a journalist to pass a test before their work could be published, which would mean that none of the rest of us could ever get a letter to the editor of the newspaper published.
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