BoraxBill wrote:I'm not generally in favor of gun control, but a minimum IQ might be a good idea. No one with an IQ less than 85 should be allowed to touch a gun! It may be that 40% of blacks would not be allowed to touch a gun and people might complain that for whites it would be 15%, but let the chips fall where they may. (The number for Asians might be 10% and for Hispanics 30%, BTW.) Stop denying what all the facts prove. Everyone knows the truth. Face the facts and STFU!
Your proposal is a good one, but the implications might upset a few people. I'd estimate that at least 300 gun owners in Trona alone would fall below an IQ of 85. In fact, some of the most active gun owners I'm aware of have low IQs. Of course, there are some very intelligent people who are gun owners and a small percentage of them are what you might call active in that they do a lot of target shooting and that sort of thing, but most gun enthusiasts aren't terribly smart. In fact, it would seem that there is somewhat of an inverse relationship between gun ownership and intelligence, although I admit that there would be a lot of scatter on the graph representing that relationship.