I'm not going to comment about this conundrum
other  than to note that in order to obtain a license to drive, applicants in all 50  states must be able to demonstrate their ability to drive. 

If Iowans are concerned about this, their licensing program should include  live fire proficiency. 

Texans must fire 50 rounds at three distances and score 70%. Until this year, shooting was also required to renew a concealed handgun license.

 - Dr. Gatling

Well, New York residents today lost the right to possess detachable ammunition magazines holding more than 7 rounds and buy AR-15 or similar semi-automatic rifles that have one feature resembling an assault weapon -- such as a pistol grip. Any such weapon must now be registered with the state.

A court challenge to Governor Cuomo's late-night lawmaking and waiver of the three-day waiting period for bill passage failed in Albany when the judge said he could not rule on the governor's statement of necessity because previous law made it clear that such statements could not be questioned.

“The Court of Appeals has been clear, is clear, that judicial intervention or judicial review of a message of necessity is not
allowed,” said New York Supreme Court Justice Thomas  McNamara.

Thus, state lawmakers are implementing changes that would not pass in Washington. Colorado has a new magazine limit law and a silly statute that, effective July 1, requires all private gun transfers between unrelted parties to be processed by a licensed Federal Firearms Dealer, who must conduct a background check through the FBI NICS system unless the gun recipient has a valid Colorado concealed handgun license. It is then the gun dealer's responsibility to archive the 4473 form completed for the transaction. 

The firearms dealer can charge no more than $10 for the background check and paperwork processing. In the past, dealers have gladly done this in order to sell a gun. But ten bucks is hardly worth the time taken away from sales and customer service to walk an applicant through the process and make the call. Oh, we're hearing that NICS line has been pretty busy of late.


 

 Before school shooters made headlines, it was mad bombers who killed our  children.

 The deadliest mass murder in a school in U.S. history took place in May 1927  in Bath Township, Michigan. 

Wikipedia’s entry on the tragedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_Disaster) says  Andrew Kehoe “killed 38 elementary school children and six adults, and injured  at least 58 other people. Kehoe first killed his wife, fire-bombed his farm and  set off a major explosion in the Bath Consolidated School, before committing  suicide by detonating a final explosion in his truck.”

 Kehoe is said to have used a timed detonator to ignite hundreds of pounds of dynamite and  incendiary pyrotol.

 In September 1959, my wife and her brother survived a bombing at Poe Elementary School in Houston, Texas. 

Six people, including the perpetrator, were killed, according to the  Wikipedia listing,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_Elementary_School_bombing  .

 The debate continues about limiting firearm magazine size or outlawing  semi-automatic rifles (guns that require a separate pull of the trigger to fire  bullets one-by-one) that resemble military rifles. 

True assault rifles, capable of fully-automatic fire, have been strictly  regulated since 1934.

But I have to wonder what might happen if new gun control initiatives make it  more expedient for deranged killers to resort to real weapons of mass  destruction.

 - Dr. Gatling