The laws for driving are different here depending on the state. In NC, you cannot get a drivers licence without drivers ed and one year of a learners permit with a licensed adult driver for a year until you are 18. You can get a learners permit at 15, but regardless of when you get it, you have to have it for 1 year and then you can take the tests for a license. After your year of driving with a licensed driver over 18 under the permit, you can test for a graduated license. If you pass the eye exam, the written exam, and the behind the wheel exam, for the next 6 months you can only drive from 5am-9pm on your own and only 1 other person under the age of 18 can be in the vehicle with you. No one under the age of 18 can use a cell phone while driving. From 9pm-5am it is just like a learners permit. A licensed driver over 18 must be sitting in the seat beside you. If you don't meet all of those requirements, you cannot test for a full license until you are 18.

By the way, I agree with you on the training and licensing of firearms. I have absolutely no problem with that and believe it should be required as a federal law.


>I think there should be a national registry AND a national firearms license.
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>Right now in the US a 16 year old kid can get a driver's permit and get behind the wheel of a
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>A potential gun owner should be required to attend training before being awarded a license.
>Then each time he/she buys a gun, it's entered into the database.
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>Not only is the person tracked, but trained. This would reduce the accidental deaths by guns and
>help track firearms.
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>>Tracy,
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>>Interesting links....and really supporting what is common sense.
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>>By the way, does anyone recall the Islamic looting that took place in Europe right after the 9/11 attacks? Makes you wonder if all those guys would have done so, had they known that their victims would have been able to defend themselves.
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>>I'm open to discussion on specifics of making sure that background checks for gun owners are as full-proof as possible. But the notions being promoted by some here are just way off base.
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>>Kevin