I'm for gun rights. I believe that you should have to take and pass a gun use and safety class, above and beyond hunters ed. I also believe that it should need to be redone maybe every 3 years for the first 12 and then every 5 or so years for life. I believe you should have to produce the card or number each time you applied for a hinting license or purchased a weapon.
I do not believe it would infringe on rights to own as long as it is not coat prohibitive.
I do not believe it would infringe on rights to vote as long as it is not cost prohibitive.
See how that works? Rights are RIGHTS and can't be taken away or infringed upon, per our Constitution. The right to bear arms has been infringed upon hundreds of times, gun owners have captitulated to regulations over and over again, and it still hasn't resulted in the end of "gun violence". Maybe because violence has nothing to do with GUNS and everything to do with the human heart and the society that we live in that glorifies and encourages hatred, sin, evilness and death.
Seriously though...Exactly how would safety courses have stopped yesterdays murders? Do you think that the man didn't realize that pointing the gun and pulling the trigger was unsafe? How would it have stopped any of the gun murders that occur daily, mainly in cities with gun bans already in place?
Would your average criminal running around the inner cities take a safety course for the Glock that he just bought off the drug dealer on the corner who stole it from some house in the burbs that he broke in to? Do you think that the irresponsible parent who leaves their gun on the coffee table with a toddler in the house doesn't KNOW that bad things can happen if the child gets the gun, and that only a gun safety course can educate them to that fact?
Gun safety courses are a good idea, I'm not saying they aren't. But they should not be mandated by government as a condition of gun ownership. They are not the "magic bullet" that will solve the gun violence issue, because they do nothing to target a single person who is prone to using a gun to commit their violence.
The man yesterday bought his gun legally. He underwent the mandated background check. He followed the laws on the books, as did the store that sold him the gun. There was nothing in his background that could have predicted he would do this. Do you really, truly, think that he would have NOT carried out his plan if he had taken a safety course first?
As far as Walmart not selling semi-automatic guns anymore...so what? Their choice. They weren't a big seller for them anyway. Most people who want those types of weapons go through a knowledgeable source anyway, and purchase a better quality than walmart sells. Besides...have you ever tried to get service at the gun counter at walmart? You are likely to die of old age before you find someone in the store who can help you buy one of their guns. It's not a big loss.
Just for arguments sake...Do you know how many things that Walmart sells that could be used to kill another human being? Knives are used in many murders. Knives kill many people. Walmart sells knives. Demand they stop selling knives immediately!
And please, for the love of pete everyone...stop using the term "assault weapon". It makes you sound incredibly ignorant. There is no such thing. It's a term made up by liberals to stoke up fear in the ignorant segment of the society that has no understanding of guns or constitutional rights, or human nature for that matter. Think for yourselves, please, and educate yourselves.
I never remember Armalite because I would think AL instead of AR....however I do know the AR does not mean Assault Rifle. I used that particular example because it had been brought up earlier and I knew that many do think the AR = Assault Rifle. But I can hear him huffing and puffing somewhere that I didn't explain it either in my post so 
