Reply #48: And yet more elitism... [View All]

S/he may be a lovely, generous, morally upright individual -- just, sadly, not too bright and not too sober. Why I would "trust" that such a person will not behave unreasonably or unsafely with a firearm, I can't imagine.

This begs the question as to why s/he should be trusted with any potentially dangerous object. And what of the alcohol itself? Using your standard, shouldn't that also be far more strictly regulated?
You seem to suggesting that alcohol consumption (along with basic stupidity) is a primary cause for the misuse of firearms. Since intelligence cannot be regulated, perhaps severely restricting who can consume alcohol will far more effective. After all, in the United States, the right to drink alcohol is not specifically codified in the BOR, unlike the RKBA.

You may also wish to consider that the application of traditional IQ standards is quite controversial and even being rejected by folk far smarter than you as a not very reliable indicator of intelligence or competency.