You do have to demonstrate some basic competence to drive your pickup, you had to get a license. You probably didn't complain much about that did you? But if we said you had to pass a mandatory test in ALL states to purchase a firearm you probably would.
1. The only reason I don't complain about vehicle licensing is because I'm not sure how to abolish it. Don't make assumptions.
2. Second, vehicle licensing exists to assure that you will not get into accidents with your vehicle (as avoiding accidents with a vehicle requires skill). Gun licensing is not intended to avoid gun accidents (because gun accidents are not a major issue - everyone realizes that you are not really likely to accidentally shoot yourself dead with a gun - you're more likely to get hit by lightning. Gun accidents occur not due to a lack of marksmanship skill, but through total stupidity on someone's behalf). The problem that some people have with gun ownership revolves around the problem of people being
deliberately shot with guns.
Firearm licensing will have exactly one effect:
Impose costs on gun ownership, by creating more arbitrary hassle for you to go through when you buy a gun.
Passing a marksmanship test will not make you less likely to shoot another human being or to commit suicide.
It will only make it more difficult for you to own a gun.
So, if you believe that less people owning guns is, in and of itself, going to lead to less murders being committed... then surely you'd think that gun licensing is good.
But in that case you are not actually curiousaboutguns, you're actually full-on anti-gun.
Because that's what being anti-gun actually is, believing that more people lawfully owning more guns leads to more murders.