OT - Should passing a drug test be a requirement for gun purchase/ownership?

On Mar 29, 8:04*am, "RD (The Sandman)" rdsandman(spamlock)
@comcast.net wrote:
wrote :





On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:33:19 -0500, "RD (The Sandman)"
wrote:

"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" wrote
68.3.70:

Nicholas wrote in
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:12:35 -0500, Another Sunny Day
wrote:

Guns can kill the same way that cars can. *Why not hold operations
of both to the same standards?

60,000 deaths/year from on the road traffic accidents. *How many
from LEGAL use of firearms again? *I forgot your *statistic.*

Nick

Actually annual highway deaths have been around 42,000 last 5 years
although last year was around 37,000 due to the bush depression. But
it's still much higher than the 32,000 annual gun deaths - and half
of those are suicides and shouldn't count.

Suicides, by definition have at least one willing participant.

FWIW, if you don't realize it, you (and any who respond without
trimming the headers) are cross-posting to a number of unrelated
groups. *If you do realize it, um, well...carry on, I guess...

I don't crosspost. *I do, however respond to posts I find in
talk.politics.guns. *I have no control over those folks, but I do intend
for my comment to reach the poster I am responding to even though I have
no idea which forum *they* crossposted from. *It really is a difference..

--

Valid point. Its pretty easy with crossposted threads to lose the
perspective of the other folks who are at home in their own groups.

FYI, none of the participants on this thread (with the recent
exception of rdean and myself just now) are from
rec.outdoors.fishing.fly, so if you deleted that group from your
header, you will still be replying to the poster who started this
thread, as well as all the posters who are participating. In fact, you
could easily do that to any threads that have rec.outdoors.fishing,fly
in the headers, as we are fairly careful to only crosspost to a couple
of other fishing sites.

We are receiving a recent spate of unusually high cross-posted traffic
here on roff, and I suspect that the only way it will die down is if
mindful people start trimming headers (keeping in mind your point
about ensuring your response gets to the OP) or waiting until the
thread dies out.

In that vein, you shouldn't be hearing from me again unless I wander
over to talk.politics.guns. Enjoy your chats!

--riverman