Distinguish gun ownership, gun possession, and gun carry

The definition of the following must be made clear first to distinguish (1) Gun Ownership, (2) Gun Possession, (3) Gun Carry. If you mix up these three, the gun control debate would become non-sense.

Gun Ownership is a universal right, even a minor child can own a gun he rightfully inherited from his deceased parent, but the gun must be deposited in the government safe until the child is fit to qualify for Gun Possession. To regulate gun ownership, we must regulate gun ownership conveyance. To this effect, we have to institutionalize a Gun Registry of Deeds. With gun property ownership rights and ownership conveyance clearly defined, gun can be sold or rented out just like any personal property under strict regulations.

Gun Possession is the right of the individual to bear arms in his place of dwelling or place of business for self- and property-defense purposes. Gun possession must be regulated to ensure that the person who possess the gun meets the qualification on the regulatory policies on gun possession licensing. When I say qualification, he must be at least 18 years old, owns a property to protect, psychologically fit, and spouse's consent among others. Society might not want a person who is jobless and homeless to get and maintain a license to possess a gun. The moment the person who possess a gun brings it outside his real estate property, it becomes a Gun Carry. A person who is authorized to gun possession must have a license to possess a gun.

Gun Carry is when you bring your gun outside your property, meaning in someone else's property or in a place called public area or common area, such as schools, malls, church, and even streets. Gun Carry must be regulated in a manner that only law enforcers on duty and in uniform must be allowed to Gun Carry. A person who is authorized to gun carry must have a gun carry license.

Gun ownership, gun possession, and gun carry have different responsibilities, obligations, and liabilities. For example, a gun owner must be responsible to register deeds of conveyance, such as, if he sells the gun, he must be sure that the buyer has license to possess a gun. A person who is authorized by a license to possess a gun must keep the gun in the safe as specified by law.

No who is liable to a gun crime? The person who hold and shoot the gun must be the one who will be primarily liable. If the ownership of the gun is registered to someone else other than the shooter, the owner must also be liable if he disobeyed the procedure of gun ownership. If the license to possess of the gun is under the name of someone else other than the shooter, the gun possession licensee must also be liable if he disobeyed the procedure that comes along with the license to possess gun.

A person may own as many guns, no restriction, as long as it is kept in a lock safe of the government or government accredited gun firing range. A person may be given license to possess one firearm only with limited number of ammunition.

For government law enforcers on duty and in uniform, they will carry THE GUN that is prescribed and ORDERED by their commanders, whether that be a small caliber, a regular hand gun, a machine gun, a shotgun, an assault rifle, a sniper gun, a bazooka, a mortar, or even a battle tank. However, when off duty, the law enforcers are ordinary citizens and must abide by the rules of gun ownership, gun possession, and gun carry.

This has always been my position as a gun policy advocate.

Character vs Knowledge

All persons have unique characteristics, and they differ according to color, shape, behavior, habits, social perspectives, moral standards, preferences, sound, smell, gender, etc. Stereotyping a character is taboo in the universality of mankind. Stereotyping a character is only done by losers who want to make their own common characteristic superior compared to the diversity of the rest. Unlike character, knowledge can be sold, can be bought, can be given away, can be withheld. And there such a thing called forgetfulness that may just make knowledge evaporate into oblivion. By the way, a pretentious character is just a product of acquired knowledge about a desired characteristics that can be forgotten anytime anywhere.

People are generally good

A person is generally good all the time. A person becomes criminal only a few minutes. It's just difficult to predetermine the who, where, when, how, and why of a crime. So it is important that there is tighter gun-carry law that is reinforced with a non-nonsense checkpoints system. (reaction to the Dec 2012 Connecticut shooting of 26 students and educators)

Bend or Break

Bending the Law and Breaking the Law are two different stories.

Why am I reluctant to support the Anti-Epal Policy?

WHY AM I RELUCTANT TO SUPPORT ANTI-EPAL Policy? There are two types of Political Advertising, (1) Traditional Tri-Media Advertising and (2) Guerilla Advertising. Traditional is only for the rich politicians because this type is EXPENSIVE as it uses printed broadsheets, radio, and TV. Guerilla uses fly-posters, t-shirts, internet, and street billboards. A non-performing politician can't put up a project billboard, but can use heart-warming traditional ads. Among all these, I like the street billboards because it is somewhat a PERFORMANCE-BASED political advertising. If a politician built a smooth highway for me, I would love to see on billboards along the highway the face of the politician who worked hard to accomplish the project. But I HATE it when I pass by bad roads and when I come home I see non-performing politicians on TV. Political advertising on project billboards should not be prohibited, but it can be regulated to prevent false ads that deceives the public into believing that it is the politician who FUNDED the project. In project billboard advertising, due credit must be given to the funder and to the politician who worked hard in pushing the project into reality.

Visions and Memories

The mind of the young ones is full of VISIONS of the future. The mind of the old ones is full of MEMORIES of the past. Just by looking at the line-up of your top leaders, I will be able to tell whether your organization will be moving forward or reverse.

Frustration, Depression, Inspiration

What defines a weak and strong person is how his mind reacts to frustration. Frustration will either cause a person to get depressed or inspired to create solutions.

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Frustration drives people in two ways. For a weak person, depression. For the strong person, inspiration to create solutions.