Ya see, if we also required gun registration, we’d know where every single one of them were and we could send the sheriff over to pick them up for the gun fondlers’ convenience.
You DO realize that your scenario is exactly why many gun owners are against registration, right? The slippery slope between registration and confiscation is perilous, in the minds of many.
1. I know, and it’s a bullshit argument. It is literally a slippery slope argument.
2. I’m talking about confiscating them from people who you and I both agree ought not have them. The crazy. The violent. The stupid. The people who have the crazy or violent living under their roofs (like, Adam Lanza’s mom).
NPR had a piece on last week wherein they examined a police department trying to confiscate guns from domestic abusers with restraining orders. The woman (victim) tells the police exactly what guns he has. The police ask him for them. He says, “the bitch is lyin’. I ain’t got no guns.” They stand there like idiots for a while, then leave without his guns.
Without registration, there is no confiscation. Without confiscation there is no accountability. If this assault rifle ban goes through, what do we about the millions of them already floating around out there? Not much because we don’t know who has them.
With registration, there are no more straw sales. There is accountability.
Paranoid of what tho? Paranoid that the Sheriff will come and confiscate?
Why would you be paranoid of that? Are you a felon? Are you a domestic abuser? Do you hear voices in your head? Have you threatened to shoot up a school over Twitter? Do you live with someone to whom any of those apply? No? Then you have no reason to worry.
Unapologetically Screwtape! LOL, love it.
Yeah, I’ve had it with gun fools.