With all the hyperventilating on the right about the lie that Obama and the democrats trying to get us to a national gun registry, I have a question... Why not?
I'm linking to a Huffpo Comment that crystalized something that has been bugging me for a while.
“It is a myth, but why would a gun registry be such a bad idea? By requiring all guns to be registered, then individuals might realize they have some responsibility to secure those guns to prevent children form accessing them and thieves from stealing them. Having a gun registered isn't going to encroach upon the rights of individuals to own and possess them, if they are legally permitted to do so.
It would, however, permit law enforcement to track guns and see if irresponsible or criminal individuals are either selling their guns or giving them to individuals with no right to own them.
We keep hearing all these wild myths from the right...their brains must twirl during their sleep and come up with DANGER, DANGER, ahead, and then they fill in whatever silly, stupid, or dangerous thing they want.
They went looney over "death panels" being established by the Health Care Affordability Act, when they were not, but the changes they want in Medicare and the extension of Medicaid in Republican states surely will have the same affect, if one understands how the medical delivery system works. I guess it is a case of it is a BAD THING until the Republicans really want to do it, and then they have to stop calling it a "death panel" and claim it is fiscal responsibility.
No one thinks we could get a gun registry through Congress, when they can't agree upon the most pragmatic steps to reign in gun violence via reasonable steps, so claiming they are working on gun registries is just another one of the loon things they use to manipulate their weak-minded little Fox-watching followers.
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of course there was a comment to that comment from a wingnut.
Are you seriously joking???
The left keeps forgetting that gun ownership IS NOT a privilege... it is a RIGHT!
ANY intrusion into that right is UNACCEPTABLE! And is in fact the EXACT same thing as requiring someone to "register" what they wanted to speak about! And before anyone even says otherwise, our founding fathers put it at #2 for a VERY REAL reason... that YES, it is that important! And is a NATURAL RIGHT! Period!
Every single argument for gun control is completely moot as this is the reality of our FOUNDING PRINCIPLES! The ONLY acceptable way for ANY of this to fly is to make a constitutional amendment overthrowing the 2nd... So unless that is what you are trying to do, you really must stop, "and have fun trying to accomplish that" LOL
And the argument of, "90% of Americans want this" is even more absurd, we are NOT a "mob rule" nation. Our constitution protects the minority as much as the majority! If 99% of people wanted to put all red heads in jail, our constitution protects that 1%! Again, unless you plan on changing America to a mob rule society, your arguments mean NOTHING!
Regarding the response..... I call BS on "Its a right". Voting is a constitutional right and god knows you need to register for that. Speech is a constitutional right, but only in certain places and with the right permits. If you look at the risk involved in voting, speech, and gun ownership, at least the first two can't kill anybody.
Regarding the initial comment - Perhaps this should have been the starting position in the debate. Put the right on the defense. Expanded background checks could be the comprimise you wind up with. Heck you might even win. The argument that "criminals won't register" is crap. With a registry at least you might know the last legal owner of the gun so you can get a start on finding out where it went from there.
I wonder if the concept of a national registry has ever been polled. I have a feeling most people might look upon it positively.